Euripidean Polemic The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy

The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, he is able to offer a coherent view of a number of longstanding problems in Euripidean criticism, for instance, the relation of Euripides to the Sophists.Croally, N. T. is the author of 'Euripidean Polemic The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy' with ISBN 9780521464901 and ISBN 0521464900.