In Praise of Prometheus: Humanism and Rationalism in Aeschylean Thought - Hardcover

Golden, Leon

 
9780807809969: In Praise of Prometheus: Humanism and Rationalism in Aeschylean Thought

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This book analyzes in detail the argument that Aeschylus was a great poet whose views on religious and political thought were naive and primitive. The author cites relevant evidence to discount this theory and identifies Aeschylus as a rationalist and a humanist.

Originally published in 1966.

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ISBN 10:  0807873721 ISBN 13:  9780807873724
Verlag: The University of North Carolina..., 2012
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