Die Griechischen Tragödien mit Rücksicht auf den Epischen Cyclus 3 Volume Set

An attempt to reconstruct the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, demonstrating their debt to the Epic Cycle.

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (Author)

9781108029926, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 20 April 2011

1650 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 9.6 cm, 2.11 kg

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) championed a comprehensive approach to antiquity, embracing history, literature, art and religion. This, and his openness to contemporary philosophical ideas about aesthetics and mythology, gave his work a visionary quality that inspired later figures as diverse as Usener and Wilamowitz. In this three-volume work on tragedy, his largest, published between 1839 and 1841, he attempts to reconstruct all the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, insisting on their artistic unity, and demonstrating their fundamental debt to the Epic Cycle (which he had investigated in his Der Epische Cyclus, also reissued in this series). Amid much that is fantastic he made many brilliant discoveries, such that he must still be consulted by all serious students of the subject.

Volume 1: Vorrede
Einleitung
1. Tragiker vor Aeschylus
2. Sophokles
3. Der Troische Kreis
4. Der Thebische Kreis
5. Ausserhalb des epischen Kreises. Volume 2: 6. Euripides
7. Der Troische Kreis
8. Der Thebische Kreis
9. Ausserhalb des epischen Kreises
10. Bergleichende Uebersicht der Tragödien von Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides. Volume 3: 11. Die übrigen tragiker bis auf Alexander
12. Die tragödien nach Alexander
13. Die Griechisch-Römischen tragödien
14. Die Römischen tragödien
15. Allgemeine zusammenstellung
16. Zusätze und berichtigungen
Register.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]