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R. LATTIMORE, Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy. London, The Athlone Press, 1964. 106 p. Pr. sh. 18/-

R. LATTIMORE, Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy. London, The Athlone Press, 1964. 106 p. Pr. sh. 18/- 411 a 6t6 bien vive et qui s'en étonnera, qui aura lui-même, souvent et vainement, tAch6 d'aboutir à une interprétation sure de tembeyat Aychilochi musam pede mascula Sa??ho ? SANTPOORT-ZUID, Duinlustparkweg 46 J. C. KAMERBEEK DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA R. LATTIMORE, Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy. London, The Athlone Press, 1964. 106 p. Pr. sh. 18/-. At p. 68 of this book we read: "... the essential function of tragedy: story-telling through poetry". Small wonder then that Professor Lattimore, whose The Poetry of Greek Tragedy (1958) has become deservedly well-known, felt the need of discussing what may be called the other pole of this bipolarity. In Ch. I, "Tragedy as Story-telling", starting from Aristotle's he observes that this means that Tragedy acts out a story or gives the story in a form that could be acted out: "It is a kind of story-telling, whatever else it may be" (p. 2). (This is not as exact as would seem desirable: however important the story, drama is never story-telling, not even of a kind). The author then proceeds to illustrate the relation between the material of Legend and the stuff of Tragedy by the example of Oedipus and this discussion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

R. LATTIMORE, Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy. London, The Athlone Press, 1964. 106 p. Pr. sh. 18/-

Mnemosyne , Volume 19 (4): 411 – Jan 1, 1966

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Brill
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© 1966 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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1568-525X
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10.1163/156852566X00574
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411 a 6t6 bien vive et qui s'en étonnera, qui aura lui-même, souvent et vainement, tAch6 d'aboutir à une interprétation sure de tembeyat Aychilochi musam pede mascula Sa??ho ? SANTPOORT-ZUID, Duinlustparkweg 46 J. C. KAMERBEEK DE NOVIS LIBRIS IUDICIA R. LATTIMORE, Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy. London, The Athlone Press, 1964. 106 p. Pr. sh. 18/-. At p. 68 of this book we read: "... the essential function of tragedy: story-telling through poetry". Small wonder then that Professor Lattimore, whose The Poetry of Greek Tragedy (1958) has become deservedly well-known, felt the need of discussing what may be called the other pole of this bipolarity. In Ch. I, "Tragedy as Story-telling", starting from Aristotle's he observes that this means that Tragedy acts out a story or gives the story in a form that could be acted out: "It is a kind of story-telling, whatever else it may be" (p. 2). (This is not as exact as would seem desirable: however important the story, drama is never story-telling, not even of a kind). The author then proceeds to illustrate the relation between the material of Legend and the stuff of Tragedy by the example of Oedipus and this discussion

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Published: Jan 1, 1966

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