Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World

by: Markantonatos, A.

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 About this book
This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles? Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices.
The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.

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Preface

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Poet, the Polis and the Play

Chapter 2. Multiple Stories: The Oedipus Myth

Chapter 3. Sophocles and Oedipus: The Quest for Athens

Chapter 4. Religion and History: The Future of Athens

Chapter 5. Tragic Intertextuality: Hope and Fear

Chapter 6. Influence and Performance: Oedipus and the World

Conclusion

General Index

Index of Greek Words

Index of Oedipus at Colonus Passages

Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World

by: Markantonatos, A.

• ISBN-13: 9783110193268 / 978-3-11-019326-8
• ISBN-03: 3110193264 / 3-11-019326-4
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2007

Price: 119,95 EURO

1 copy in stock