#the bacchae and the oresteia are the two most common foundations for how people think about tragedy
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might fuck around and come up with a theory of greek tragedy based on like. idk. iphigenia in tauris.
#the bacchae and the oresteia are the two most common foundations for how people think about tragedy#but the book i just finished talked about tragedy in a way that clearly owed more to the persians than it was letting on#and also more obviously centered ajax#the other book i finished recently built its entire theory of tragedy around the trachiniai and hippolytus (and the bacchae)#the book i read in december i think centered ajax and hippolytus and oedipus at colonus (as well as the bacchae and oresteia)#oh and obviously aristotle uses oedipus rex as his model#mine
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