Brill's companion to Sophocles / edited by Andreas Markantonatos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Markantonatos, Andreas.

Series:

Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.

Brill's companions in classical studies

[Brill's companions in classical studies], 1872-3357

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sophocles--Criticism and interpretation.

Sophocles.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (759 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brill's Companion to Sophocles offers 32 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Sophoclean drama. Each chapter offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area, as well as covering a wide variety of thematic angles. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Sophocles and Greek tragedy, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Sophocles, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Sophoclean studies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Andreas Markantonatos

Introduction: Sophocles and His Critics / Andreas Markantonatos

Biography / William Blake Tyrrell

Text and Transmission / Guido Avezzù

Ajax / P.J. Finglass

Electra / E.M. Griffiths

Oedipus Tyrannus / Josh Beer

Antigone / David Carter

Trachiniae / Bruce Heiden

Philoctetes / Poulcheria Kyriakou

Oedipus at Colonus / Jon Hesk

Fragments and Lost Tragedies / Alan H. Sommerstein

The Satyr Plays of Sophocles / Bernd Seidensticker

The Homer of Tragedy: Epic Sources and Models in Sophocles / John Davidson

Dynamic Allusion in Sophocles / Francis M. Dunn

Sophocles and Music / Timothy Power

The Language of Sophocles / Luigi Battezzato

Oedipus, Odysseus, and the Failure of Rhetoric / Nancy Worman

Narratology of Drama: Sophocles the Storyteller / Andreas Markantonatos

(Mis)Representations of Sophocles’ Plays? / Jocelyn Penny Small

Sophoclean Choruses / Rachel Kitzinger

Ritual in Sophocles / Rush Rehm

Gods and Heroes in Sophocles / Jon D. Mikalson

Political Tragedy: Sophocles and Athenian History / Sarah Ferrario

Sophocles and Political Thought / Kurt A. Raaflaub

Women’s Voices in Sophocles / Judith Mossman

Minor Characters in Sophocles / Bernhard Zimmermann

Sophocles and Education / Justina Gregory

Sophocles and Philosophy / Emily Wilson

Sophocles the Ironist / Michael Lloyd

The Reception of Sophocles in Antiquity / Matthew Wright

The Influence of Sophocles on Modern Literature and the Arts / Michael J. Anderson

‘Men as They Ought to Be’: Sophocles in Translation / J. Michael Walton

Sophocles Made New: Modern Performances / Marianne McDonald

Bibliography / Andreas Markantonatos

Index of Subjects / Andreas Markantonatos

Index of Principal Sophoclean Passages / Andreas Markantonatos.

Notes:

Errata slip included.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 661-714) and indexes.

ISBN:

90-04-21762-2

OCLC:

864382528

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004217621 DOI