Download or read book Murder Among Friends written by Elizabeth S. Belfiore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Greek tragedy as a genre is characterized by plots centering on kin killing. It contains a detailed analysis of five plays, and comprehensive documentation of this plot pattern in all of the extant tragedies, and in the lost plays of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.