Late Sophocles
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Author
Publication
2015-02-26 - University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
40,500 words, Guess
Page Count
162 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100472119567
- ISBN-139780472119561
- ISBN-139780472121083
- ISBN-100472121081
- Library of Congress Control Number2014049364
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number900242817
- Better World Books9780472121083
- Better World Books9780472119561
- Open LibraryOL28357358M
Classifications
- LCCPA4417 .V36 2015
- LCCPA4417
- LCCPA4417.V36 2015
Description
Only a few plays by Sophocles?one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens?have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles? treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die? Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book?s main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays.
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