A companion to Sophocles /
A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. The first collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Kirk Ormand
- The textual transmission of Sophocles' dramas / P.J. Finglass
- Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel
- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson
- Antigone / André Lardinois
- Polyphonic Ajax / Peter Burian
- Oedipus Tyrannus / Vayos Liapis
- Electra / Francis Dunn
- The divided worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis / Margaret Rachel Kitzinger
- The Philoctetes of Sophocles / Paul Woodruff
- Last things : Oedipus at Colonus and the end of tragedy / Thomas Van Nortwick
- Sophocles' Ichneutae or how to write a satyr play / Willeon Slenders
- Sophoclean fragments / Carolin Hahnemann
- Sophocles Didaskalos / C.W. Marshall
- Poetic speakers in Sophocles / Sarah H. Nooter
- Sophocles' choruses / Sheila Murnaghan
- Lament as speech act in Sophocles / Casey Dué
- Sophocles and class / Peter W. Rose
- Sophocles and contemporary politics / Robin Osborne
- Sophocles and Athenian law / Edward M. Harris
- The necessity and limits of deliberation in Sophocles' Theban plays / Edith Hall
- Heroic pharmacology : Sophocles and the metaphors of Greek medical thought / Robin Mitchell-Boyask
- Sophocles and hero cult / Bruno Currie
- Cutting to the bone : recalcitrant bodies in Sophocles / Nancy Worman
- Staging mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the king / Laura McClure
- Marriage in Sophocles : a problem for social history / Cynthia Patterson
- Masculinity and freedom in Sophocles / Bruce King
- Aristotle on Sophocles / John Kirby
- Sophocles and Homer / Seth L. Schein
- Facing up to tragedy : toward an intellectual history of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche / Michael Lurie
- Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles' Antigone / Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett
- Freud and the drama of Oedipal truth / Richard H. Armstrong
- Sophocles with Lacan / Mark Buchan
- Oedipus on Oedipus : Sophocles, Seneca, politics, and therapy / Alex Dressler
- Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Jed Deppman
- Enter Antigone, let the Agones begin : Sophocles' Antigone in nineteenth-century Greece / Gonda Van Steen
- Tony Harrison's The trackers of Oxyrhynchus / Hallie Rebecca Marshall
- Black Oedipus / Emily Wilson.