Author: Thomas Van NortwickPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119567
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
An accessible examination of the evolution of key Sophoclean characters
Late Sophocles
Author: Thomas Van NortwickPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119567
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
An accessible examination of the evolution of key Sophoclean characters
Late Sophocles
Author: Thomas Van NortwickPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472901079
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles’ treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die? Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book’s main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays. This balanced approach, in which a detailed argument about the plays is offered in a format accessible to nonspecialists, is unusual—perhaps unique—in contemporary Classical scholarship on Sophocles. This book will appeal to nonspecialist readers of serious literature as well as scholars of classical and other literatures. While including ample guidance for those not familiar with the plays, Late Sophocles goes beyond a generalized description of “what happens” in the plays to offer a clear, jargon-free argument for the enduring importance of Sophocles’ plays. The argument’s implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated.
Sophocles
Author: Jacques JouannaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069124040X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century. Sophocles was the commanding figure of his day. The author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, he was not only the leading dramatist but also a distinguished politician, military commander, and religious figure. And yet the evidence about his life has, until now, been fragmentary. Reconstructing a lost literary world, Jouanna has finally assembled all the available information, culled from inscriptions, archaeological evidence, and later sources. He also offers a huge range of new interpretations, from his emphasis on the significance of Sophocles' political and military offices (previously often seen as honorary) to his analysis of Sophocles' plays in the mythic and literary context of fifth-century drama. Written for scholars, students, and general readers, this book will interest anyone who wants to know more about Greek drama in general and Sophocles in particular. With an extensive bibliography and useful summaries not only of Sophocles' extant plays but also, uniquely, of the fragments of plays that have been partially lost, it will be a standard reference in classical studies for years to come.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004300945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles offers a comprehensive account of the reception of Sophocles’ plays over the centuries, across cultures and within a range of different fields, such as literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, dance, stage and cinema.
Oedipus the King
Author: SophoclesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522715993
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Oedipus the King is the first tragic play in Sophocles' classic Oedipus trilogy. The plays tells the story of a man who eventually becomes the King of Thebes while fulfilling an extremely tragic prophecy.
Brill's Companion to Sophocles
Author: Andreas MarkantonatosPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004217622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
Brill's Companion to Sophocles offers 32 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Sophoclean drama. Each chapter offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area, as well as covering a wide variety of thematic angles. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Sophocles and Greek tragedy, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Sophocles, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Sophoclean studies.
Sophocles: Electra
Author: Michael LloydPublisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9780715632802
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sophocles' Electra deals with the famous story of Orestes' vengeance on his mother Clytemnestra for her murder of his father Agamemnon. This book discusses whether the matricide is a just and final act of violence, or whether Sophocles ironically implies that it is more problematic than it seems. Electra is notable among Sophocles' plays for the prominent part played in it by female characters, and especially the heroic resistance and suffering of Orestes' sister Electra. The book pays particular attention to the portrayal of Electra herself, but also discusses wider issues of dramatic characterisation and Greek ethics. Sophocles is one of the greatest masters of the medium in the history of theatre, and the book explains the formal conventions of Greek tragedy and examines various aspects of his skill as a dramatist. The book concludes with an examination of later adaptations of the play, of which the most important is that by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1903), a study in extreme psychology which he adapted to form the libretto for Richard Strauss's opera Elektra.
The Oedipus Cycle
Author: SophoclesPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156027649
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
Catalogue of a Part of the Library of the Late Professor J. Henry Thayer, D.D., of Harvard University
Author: Joseph Henry ThayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Sophocles: Antigone and Other Tragedies
Author: Oliver TaplinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199286248
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.