Under the Sign of the Shield

Under the Sign of the Shield PDF Author: Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739125892
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
A study of the last drama of Aeschylus' trilogy concerned with the fortunes of the house of Laius that ends with the story of Oedipus' sons, the enemy brothers, who self-destruct in mutual fratricide but thereby save the besieged city of Thebes. The book's findings, however, far exceed these limits to explore the relationships between language and kinship, as between family and city, self and society, and Greek ideas about the nature of human development and identity.