Peter Burian, Eugene Falk, Peter Smith, and Robert ter Horst discuss ways in which modern understandings of tragedy are altogether different from notions of the tragic in ancient Greek drama. Yet connections persist between conceptions of tragedy in antiquity and modernity. What are these underlying ideas? How do they diverge from and parallel one another?
At the time of this interview, Burian was professor of classics at Duke University. Falk, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1982-83), was professor of comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith was professor of classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ter Horst, a Fellow at the Center (1982-83), was professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
