Books by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker

In this three-volume work on tragedy, published between 1839 and 1841, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) attempts to reconstruct all the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, insisting on their artistic unity, and demonstrating their fundamental debt to the Epic Cycle.

In this three-volume work on tragedy, published between 1839 and 1841, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) attempts to reconstruct all the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, insisting on their artistic unity, and demonstrating their fundamental debt to the Epic Cycle.

F. G. Welcker's attempt, first published in two volumes in 1835 and 1849, to recover the lost epics of the archaic period, and the conditions of their performance and transmission. If his adventurous reconstructions do not always command assent, they offer many brilliant observations and insights in the making.