Double Meaning and Mythic Novelty in Euripides' Plays

Authors

Emily A. McDermott, University of Massachusetts BostonFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1991

Abstract

The mythic tradition of dle Greeks is protean. Each of the vast number of stories is itself variable, appearing now in one form, now in another, often standing alongside other versions which it flatly contradicts. Critical study of this remarkable tradition is doubly vexed, firSt by received myth's intrinsically fluid nature, then by the fragmentary preservation of mythic source material.

Comments

Published in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 121 (1991).

Recommended Citation

McDermott, Emily A. "Double Meaning and Mythic Novelty in Euripides' Plays," Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 121 (1991). http://scholarworks.umb.edu/classics_faculty_pubs/11

Publisher

Transactions of the American Philological Association