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Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy Gregory, Justina (Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures, Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures, Smith College)
Cheiron's Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
Gregory, Justina (Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures, Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures, Smith College)
This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates Cheiron the Centaur, ancient Greece's first teacher; traces the influential trajectory of the Iliadic Achilles; and offers readings of the Odyssey, Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis.
344 pages, 8 halftones, 8 page insert
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 5, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190857882 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 344 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 164 × 31 mm · 589 g |
| Language | English |