Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity

Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity

Christopher Rocco

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley · Los Angeles · London

© 1997 The Regents of the University of California

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Preferred Citation: Rocco, Christopher. Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9p300997/

1. Introduction

2. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos

3. Liberating Discourse

4. Plato’s Republic

5. Democracy and Discipline in Aeschylus’s Oresteia

6. Conclusion

Works Cited

Acknowledgements