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Sophocles’ Ajax and its double agon in light of some intertextual relations
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018-12)
It has been said that Sophocles’ Ajax lacks unity, and that its conclusion loses part of its tragic effect. This paper examines the tragedy’s structure and the associated innovations introduced by Sophocles, focusing ...
The Reception of paradeigma in Late Greek Rhetorical Theory
(Brill, 2022)
It seems that from its inception rhetoric generated treatises where technical advice was given about the use of that techne. Although many of these treatises are lost, a good number of them are still preserved, and through ...
The rhetoric of weapons in Euripides’ Heracles. Bow versus spear
(Brill, 2020)
Euripides’ Heracles includes an agon scene between Lycus and Amphitryon in which great prominence is attached to the value of the bow as opposed to that of the spear. According to some scholars, this debate about the weapons ...