ABSTRACT

The main idea of this essay can be put in various ways. One way is to suggest that whatever ancient Greek tragedy reveals it also conceals. Another is the converse, that whatever ancient Greek tragedy conceals it also reveals. A third way of stating the idea, and the one the present discussion will pursue, is that either way might as well be the same way: that the issue is neither concealing or revealing, nor, as C. K. Ogden would say, its enantiamorph, which would be revealing or concealing. The issue is precisely concealing revealing.