Groaning tears : : ethical and dramatic aspects of suicide in Greek tragedy / / by Elise P. Garrison.
Groaning Tears examines suicide in Greek tragedy in light of the fifth-century ethical climate. No full-scale work has previously been devoted to this pervasive topic. The particular focus of identifying suicide as a response to the expectations of popular ethics and social demands makes it useful f...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica batava. Supplementum, 147 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1995. |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, Supplements
147. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Costas Panayotakis
- Introduction / Costas Panayotakis
- The sociology of suicide / Costas Panayotakis
- To endure or to die honorably / Costas Panayotakis
- The suicide note: escape songs / Costas Panayotakis
- “Groaning tears”: suicide from grief / Costas Panayotakis
- Noble Suicide / Costas Panayotakis
- Conclusion: suicide in Euripides’ Helen / Costas Panayotakis
- Plot Summaries / Costas Panayotakis
- Select Bibliography / Costas Panayotakis
- Index Locorum / Costas Panayotakis
- General Index / Costas Panayotakis
- Supplements to Mnemosyne / J. M. Bremer , L. F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C. J. Ruijgh and P. H. Schrijvers.