Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World

ISBN-13: 9783110193268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 370 str.

Andreas Markantonatos

Opis

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.

O autorze

Andreas Markantonatos, University of Patras, Greece.