Bruce Lewis schrieb: > Dionysian elements of > Sophocles' Theban plays and Virgil's AENEID (the Dryden > translation). They are somewhat influenced by "The Birth of > Tragedy From Music," which I had them read along with OEDIPUS > THE KING and OEDIPUS AT COLONUS. Any suggestions > regarding the elements of the comparisons or contrasts between > the works.
Do you mean "The birth of tragedy out of the spirit of music" of Nietzsche? And by "Dionysian elements" - do you think about the polarity of "dionysic" and "apollinic" at Creutzer and Nietzsche, shown in the "birth of tragedy..."? grusz, hansz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub