RT Article
T1 Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual
JF The Oedipus casebook
SP 129
OP 166
A1 Burkert, Walter 1931-2015
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1913373002
AB The proliferation of theses and hypotheses, of reconstructions and constructions on the subject of the origin of tragedy leads to reflection on a basic problem of philological statements.¹ Evidently we ought not to expect that we can reduce so complex a phenomenon as Greek tragedy to one single formula of origin. Every statement is necessarily one-sided. When we are dealing with an evolution, with pollai metabolai (numerous transformations; Aristotle Poetics 1449a14), there will be in each case persistence as well as differentiation, yet it is difficult to describe both pertinently at the same time. So, following his own inclination, a...
SN 9781628953787
SN 9781609176150
SN 1609176154
SN 1628953780
DO 10.14321/j.ctvw1d58n.6