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PATZER, H., Die Anfänge der griechischen Tragödie. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1962. X,178p. ills.(22 B&W photographs on 13 paltes). Sewn. Lower corner front cover a bit dog's eared. Series: Schriften der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Geisteswissenschaftliche Reihe, Nr. 3. 'Dr Patzer offers a simple and unified picture of tragedy as heroic conflict conducted within a frame of religious belief; it arises out of dithyramb and develops along with, though independent of, the satyrplay without fundamental change even in the fourth century. But this account is open to serious objections, and Patzer is no more able than anyone else to combine all the evidence into a coherent whole. (...) What is attractive in his view is that it accounts for the close connection between satyr-play and tragedy, without encountering the difficulties involved in deriving one from the other.' (D.W. Lucas in Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1964, pp.162-63). From the library of the late professor Doktor Nikolaus Himmelmann. € 25.00 (Antiquarian)