Volume 20, Number 12 · July 19, 1973
Sophocles Our Contemporary?
By D.S. Carne-Ross
The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy
by Jan Kott
Random House, 334 pp., $8.95
Jan Kott's new book is addressed to those who believe that plays are meant to be played: to the director, armchair or practicing, rather than to the literary critic. At the same time The Eating of the Gods can profitably be read against the ambiguous state of classical antiquity today. Are the classics still part of our 'heritage,' something the educated person is supposed to know about, and if so in what sense? A field of force that, however forbidding, must even now be reckoned with? Or a chapter of Western intellectual history that is finally (thank heaven) drawing to a close?
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