Details

Subject(s)

• Euripides—Hippolytus [Browse]
• Knowledge, Theory of, in literature [Browse]

Series

• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 102. [More in this series]
• Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049. [More in this series]
• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 102 [More in this series]

Summary note

The work is limited to the question of knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus and seeks to show that one of the major themes of the Hippolytus , as of the Oedipus , is knowledge. In successive chapters these subjects are treated: (1) the witness theme, seeing and knowing, what the senses reveal -- (2) fantasies of other worlds created by the characters and how these fantasies reavel the character's perceptions of the world -- (3) how Euripides causes his characters to become aware of the shifting meanings of words and how it happens that one statement and its opposite can be predicated of the same individual or act -- (4) the desire for and fear of knowledge and the choice of ignorance -- (5) the use of generalization as a kind of ignorance -- (6) the relation of the character's knowledge to that of the audience. The work offers a new perception of the drama through a detailed examination of this important question that was so warmly debated among the early Sophists.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118).

Contents

• Preliminary Material / C. A. E. Luschnig
• The face and the mask, seeing and knowing / C. A. E. Luschnig
• Other worlds / C. A. E. Luschnig
• Δι' ἀντιλογίας / C. A. E. Luschnig
• The general and the particular / C. A. E. Luschnig
• Knowledge and ignorance / C. A. E. Luschnig
• Play and Audience / C. A. E. Luschnig
• The Tragedy of Knowledge / C. A. E. Luschnig
• Bibliography of Works Cited in the Notes / C. A. E. Luschnig.

Show 6 more Contents items

ISBN

9789004328938 ((electronic book))

LCCN

87032585

OCLC

17107932

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004328938

Statement on responsible collection description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...