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WHALLON, W., Problem and Spectacle. Studies in the Oresteia. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1980. 159p. Cloth. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper.Contents: I. There is no being certain whether the birds of prey in a comparison are those in an omen (pp.9-24); II. Whether the Curse works its fell effect upon the House is moot though urgent (pp.24-64); III. The likeness between the tableaux extends to the cloth strewn and the murder robe displayed (pp.64-113); IV. The male-as-female conventions led Shakespeare and Aeschylus to depictions of algolagnia (pp.113-143). Notes. Indices. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 16.00 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9783533028406