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City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire Angeliki Tzanetou
City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire
Angeliki Tzanetou
With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.
222 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 1, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780292754324 |
| Publishers | University of Texas Press |
| Pages | 222 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 151 × 17 mm · 335 g |
| Language | English |