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'Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides' explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's 'Iliad' book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' 'Oedipus the King' (esp. 1-215), and Thucydi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michelakis, Pantelis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:Classics in theory.
Subjects:
Homer. > Iliad.
Sophocles. > Oedipus Rex.
Thucydides. > History of the Peloponnesian War.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Plague in literature.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Peste dans la littérature.
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Iliad (Homer)
Plague in literature
Literary criticism.
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Summary:'Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides' explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's 'Iliad' book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' 'Oedipus the King' (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War' book 2 (esp. 47.3-54).
Physical Description:viii, 250 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780198844105
0198844107