The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound by Mark Griffith

The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound by Mark Griffith

Prometheus Bound was accepted without question in antiquity as the work of Aeschylus, and most modern authorities endorse this ascription. But since the nineteenth century several leading scholars have come to doubt Aeschylean authorship. Dr Griffith here provides a thorough and wide-ranging study of this problem, and concludes: 'Had Prometheus Bound been newly dug up from the sands of Oxyrhynchus... few scholars would regard it as the work of Aeschylus.' After a preliminary assessment of the external evidence, Dr Griffith examines minutely the idiosyncrasies of metre, dramatic technique, vocabulary, syntax and expression to be found in the play, applying the same tests to other plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in order to provide a control for his methods. In his final chapter he discusses how the conditions surrounding the ancient transmission and cataloguing of texts may have led to the ascription to Aeschylus.

At the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780521038140
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Titel	The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound
Autor	Mark Griffith
Serie	Cambridge Classical Studies
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-07-26
Seitenanzahl	432
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