Book contents
- When Heroes Sing
- When Heroes Sing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- List of short titles and abbreviations
- Introduction Poetry, tragedy, and Sophocles
- Part I Poetic authority
- Chapter 1 Poetic progress in Ajax
- Chapter 2 Waxing heroic in Trachiniae and Oedipus Tyrannus
- Part II Poetic power
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Waxing heroic in Trachiniae and Oedipus Tyrannus
from Part I - Poetic authority
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- When Heroes Sing
- When Heroes Sing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- List of short titles and abbreviations
- Introduction Poetry, tragedy, and Sophocles
- Part I Poetic authority
- Chapter 1 Poetic progress in Ajax
- Chapter 2 Waxing heroic in Trachiniae and Oedipus Tyrannus
- Part II Poetic power
- Bibliography
- Index
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- When Heroes SingSophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy, pp. 56 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012