Autor: Purcell, Brendan M.

Buch: The Drama of Humanity

Titel: The Drama of Humanity

Stichwort: Tragödie, Aischylos, Sophokles, Euripides

Kurzinhalt: Kurzcharakterisierung d. Linie: Aischylos, Sophokles, Euripides; Niedergang, decline

Textausschnitt: () If 'the evolution of tragedy from Aeschylus to Euripides' may be seen as 'the representative expression of the political decline of Athens, ... each of the great tragedians can illuminate a different aspect of the drama of humanity. Aeschylus conveys the substance of community, even in its tearing itself apart; Sophocles exemplifies the extraordinary character required to live one's representative humanity even when community seems to be breaking down; Euripides can exhibit the awful rudderlessness of a society evacuated of any standard of humanity, individual or political.