Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 708 g
Reihe: ISSN
Sophocles, Athens, and the World
Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 708 g
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-019326-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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.
Thebook won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.
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