Staged narrative : poetics and the messenger in Greek tragedy /
James Barrett.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
- xxiv, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.
Introduction -- Aeschylus' Persians: the messenger and epic narrative -- The literary messenger, the tragic messenger -- Euripides' Bacchae: the spectator in the text -- Homer and the art of fiction in Sophocles' Electra -- Rhesos and poetic tradition.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500 Messengers in literature Rhetoric, Ancient