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Hello, I'm Jack Wilson. Welcome to the History of literature. episode 6 Greek Tragedy Part 2.

Okay so last time we took a look at Aristotle's view of tragedy, which he viewed as the highest form of art.

We discussed the reasons for that, and we attempted to sketch out a modern day tragedy using

the tenets of Aristotle's theory. Today we have a different project to take a closer look at the three great practitioners of great tragedy,

Escales, Sophocles, and Euripides.

What were their plays about? How did they differ from one another?

And what meaning can we find in them today? But because we are the History of Literature

Podcast, which means we dig as deeply as we can and take nothing for granted.

We're going to start with another philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, who developed his own

views of Greek tragedy. It was his first book, the product of an exuberant 28-year-old philologist writing far beyond the scope of anything

that could reasonably be said to be within his discipline.

Critics hated it, and their outrage led to a second guessing of the decision to have granted

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