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swift (Oedipus)
"tragic chorus... not simply immersed in the structure of the play, but also within the outside world"
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kitto (Oedipus)
"at the end he is the polluted outcast, himself the cause of the city's distress"
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goldhill (Oedipus)
"oedipus is a paradox in himself- he is both saviour and monster"
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fagled (Oedipus)
"oedipus is his own destroyer"
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garvie (Oedipus)
"it is not so much his crimes as his discovery of them that leads to his fall"
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foley (Dionysus)
"euripides presents dionysus as a director who constructs his own play within a play"
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knox (Dionysus)
"transforms the meaning tyrant Pentheus into crazed victim"
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mossman (Dionysus)
"duel nature of dionysus":
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plutarch (Dionysus)
"[theatre was] nothing to do with dionysus"
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goldhill (Pentheus + Dionysus)
"[pentheus and dionysus] reveal the dark side of eachother]
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serbo (Pentheus)
"does not appear to consider the city at all"
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roisman (Bacchae)
"no parent can watch agave's recognition and not sympathise"
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roisman (Bacchae)
"the most tragic in Greek theatre"
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stuttard (Bacchae)
" bacchae is one of euripides' most disturbing plays"
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knox (Oedipus)
"the hero thus the destroyer"
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knox (Oedipus)
"oedipus is clearly a man of action"
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dodds (Oedipus)
"suicide would not have served his purpose"
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dodds (Oedipus)
"Oedipus is great because he accepts the responsibility for all his acts"
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scholz (Oedipus)
"[Jocasta] holds herself and not him responsible for the tragic events in his life"
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mossman (Bacchae)
"dressing up as a maenad, pentheus seems to give up his own identity"
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mossman (Bacchae)
"extreme views of the chorus make the audience begin to sympathise with pentheus thus catharsis"
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judith affleck and clive letchford (Frogs)
"frogs was written and produced at a time of extreme uncertainty"
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judith affleck and clive letchford (Frogs)
"its a mixture of slapstick, nonsense and more serious political, cultural and moral insights"
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judith affleck and clive letchford (Frogs)
"the political question that emerges in this play is whom to trust"
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judith affleck and clive letchford (Frogs)
"old-fashioned Aeschylus ... modern, sophisticated Euripides"
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kennneth dover (Frogs)
"frogs ... is a document from which we can infer athenian attitudes to tragedy"
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Card 2

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"at the end he is the polluted outcast, himself the cause of the city's distress"

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kitto (Oedipus)

Card 3

Front

"oedipus is a paradox in himself- he is both saviour and monster"

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

"oedipus is his own destroyer"

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

"it is not so much his crimes as his discovery of them that leads to his fall"

Back

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