Ridgeway William | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

With special reference to the Greek tragedians. The general theory advanced within this work, that tragedy originated in the worship of the dead, was first put forward in a lecture before the Society for the promotion of Hellenic Studies in 1904. Contents: origin of tragedy; rise of Attic tragedy; primitive drama among Asiatic peoples; survivals of the primitive type in extant Greek tragedies; expansion of tragedy. Illustrated.