Sophocles

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-70609-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 228 g

Reihe: New Surveys in the Classics

Produced in Athens during the fifth century BC, the tragedies of Sophocles are a high point in world literature, vividly depicting unforgettable characters confronted with emotional crises, moral dilemmas, and the inscrutable ways of the gods. This volume examines Sophocles' reputation as a dramatic poet both in his own day and later in antiquity, considering how it was that some of his plays survived from his time to ours. It investigates the qualities of those plays, focusing on key aspects of Sophoclean dramaturgy such as stagecraft, narrative, rhetoric, and heroism. And it incorporates within its discussion not just the seven plays that survive in full, but those major fragments discovered in recent years which shed so much light on Sophocles' extraordinary ability as a poet and a dramatist. All Greek is translated, making this volume accessible to anyone with an interest in one of the greatest playwrights of all time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finglass, P J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Transmission: 1. A long career; 2. Ancient spectators, ancient readers; 3. Survival and rediscovery; Part II. Interpretation: 4. Stagecraft; 5. Myth; 6. Narrative; 7. Language; 8. Metre; 9. Rhetoric; 10. Heroism; 11. Politics; 12. Endings; Bibliography; Index.