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  • The Song of the Sirens and Other Essays

    by Pietro Pucci ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of ... Read more

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  • Euripides' Revolution under Cover

    An Essay

    by Pietro Pucci ...
    Series Book 65 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies. The driving force behind this program is Euripides's desire to subvert the ... Read more

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  • Antigone

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  • The Birth of Tragedy

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