Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

This book is the first detailed study of the plays of Sophocles through examination of a single ethical principle--the traditional Greek popular moral code of helping friends and harming enemies. Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail from both a dramatic and an ethical standpoint, and the author concludes that ethical themes are not only integral to each drama, but are subjected to an implicit critique through the tragic consequences to which they give rise. Greek scholars and students of Greek drama and Greek thought will welcome this book, which is presented in such a way as to be accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike. No knowledge of Greek is required.

Author: Mary Whitlock Blundell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/26/1991
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780521423908

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