Cambridge Classical Studies: Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy (Paperback)
Dr Neil T Croally
Cambridge University Press
9780521041126
0-521-04112-0
The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women that issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function.
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by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of his interpretation, N.T. Croally is able to offer a coherent view on a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean criticism, such as the relation of Euripides to the Sophists.
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