GUILT BY DESCENT. Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy.

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh, with a touch of rubbing to the spine tips. The contents, with a small production fault to the front inner hinge, are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine original dustwrapper, which is a little toned to the top edge, and a touch rubbed to the extremities.

Former lecturer in Greek at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, N. J. Sewell-Rutter's 'Guilt by Descent' explores the concept of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation in Greek tragedies through examining a wide range of related plays and other Greek texts featuring the doomed Houses of Atreus and Oedipus.