Aias' Critical Day.

Calchas' prophecy in Sophocles' Aias that Athena's anger will pursue Aias for only "this one day" evokes the Hippocratic concept of the critical day, on which the patient might either die or survive. This is part of the wider engagement with Hippocratic ideas in Attic tragedy and has significant imp...

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Publicado en:Symbolae Osloenses Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 76 - 95
Autor principal: Cowan, Robert
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2021
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