Sophocles: The Oedipus Coloneus (3rd ed. 1900)
Author: Sophocles
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
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Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 3110920484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
A Companion to Sophocles
Author: Kirk Ormand
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 1119025532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights
Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought
Author: D. L. Cairns
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: 2013-12-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1910589160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on humans; fate and human responsibility; the instability of fortune and the principle of alternation; hybris and ate; and the inheritance of guilt and suffering. Other themes are tragedy's relation with Pre-Socratic philosophy, and the interplay between 'Archaic' features of the genre and fifth-century ethical and political thought. The book makes a powerful case for the importance of Archaic thought not only in the evolution of the tragic genre, but also for developed features of the Classical tragedians' art. Along with three papers on Aeschylus, four on Sophocles, and one on Euripides, there is an extensive introduction by the editor.
The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides
Author: Marco Fantuzzi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 1108889476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them.
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Adrian Kelly
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 147251971X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the 'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus to Athens, where he seeks succour and finds refuge, despite the threatening arrival of his kinsman Creon, who tries to tempt and then force the old man back under Theban control. Oedipus' resistance shows a fierceness in no way dimmed by incapacity, but he also refuses to aid his repentant son, Polyneices, in his coming attack on Thebes, manifesting once more the passion and harshness which mark his character so thoroughly. His mysterious death at the end of the play, witnessed only by Theseus himself, seems the sole fitting end for such an exceptional and problematic figure, transforming Oedipus into one of the 'powerful dead' whose beneficence towards Athens heralds a positive future for the city. This useful companion provides background, context, a synopsis and detailed analysis of the play.
The Light and the Darkness
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Publisher: Brill Archive
Published:
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOidipous at Colonus
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2015-01-02
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 158510681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an English translation of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus who is banished from Thebes and confronts an array of obstacles that stand between him and the death he craves. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
Theban Plays
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2003-03-15
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1603846913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at Colonus by Meineck. Grippingly readable, all three translations combine fidelity to the Greek with concision, clarity, and powerful, hard-edged speech. Each play features foot-of-the-page notes, stage directions, and line numbers to the Greek. Woodruff's Introduction discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, the composition of the plays, and the plots and characters of each; it also offers thoughtful reflections on major critical interpretations of these plays.
Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0299302547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOedipus at Colonus follows Oedipus Rex and Antigone in the trilogy of Greek dramas about the king of Thebes and his unhappy family. David Mulroy's translation combines scrupulous scholarship and textual accuracy with a fresh verse style, and his introduction and notes deepen the reader's understanding of the play and the politics of Sophocles' Athens.
