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Sophocles : a study of his theater in its political and social context / Jacques Jouanna ; translated by Steven Rendall.
Van Pelt Library PA4417 .J6913 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jouanna, Jacques, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sophocle. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sophocles--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sophocles.
- Greek drama--History and criticism.
- Greek drama.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 883 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Sophocles the Athenian
- Prelude: a snapshot of Sophocles
- The young Sophocles
- Sophocles the politician
- Sophocles the religious man
- Sophocles and Dionysus: the theatrical career
- Happy Sophocles
- Sophocles the tragic poet
- Prelude: a tragic disaster
- The mythic imagination
- Space and spectacle
- Time and action
- The characters
- Humans and the gods
- Seeing, hearing, and understanding
- Deus ex machina: time and nature
- Appendix I: presentation of Sophocles' extant tragedies
- Appendix II: Sophocles, fragments. List and presentation of the plays extant in the form of fragments
- Appendix III: the identification of Sophocles as a hellenotamias
- Appendix IV: Dio Chrysostom, discourse 52: on Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles or the bow of Philoctetes
- Appendix V.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780691172071
- 0691172072
- OCLC:
- 1000447281
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