Markantonatos Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles, Athens, and the World
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-092048-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 87, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte

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’ and Oedipus , 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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Markantonatos, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Markantonatos, University of Patras, Greece.