Thursday, March 07, 2019
Chapter and Verse
Bernard M.W. Knox (1914-2010), The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964), p. 10:
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In this field the critic must, like the old-time preacher, quote chapter and verse; his thesis stands or falls on its relation to the text, those words which are all we have left of the original performance in the theater of Dionysus.
