Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did
Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make
better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek
tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics. Kitto
argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual
questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key
to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the
tragic conception of each play. In Kitto's words 'We shall ask what
the dramatist is striving to say, not what in fact he does say
about this or that.' Through a brilliant analysis of Aeschylus's
'Oresteia', the plays of Sophocles including 'Antigone' and
'Oedipus Tyrannus'; and Euripides's 'Medea' and 'Hecuba', Kitto
skilfully conveys the enduring artistic and literary brilliance of
the Greek dramatists.
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