Late Sophocles
"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 Peri...
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University of Michigan Press
2021
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| author | Van Nortwick, Thomas |
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| 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. This balanced approach, in which a detailed argument about the plays is offered in a format accessible to nonspecialists, is unusual—perhaps unique—in contemporary Classical scholarship on Sophocles.
This book will appeal to nonspecialist readers of serious literature as well as scholars of classical and other literatures. While including ample guidance for those not familiar with the plays, Late Sophocles goes beyond a generalized description of “what happens” in the plays to offer a clear, jargon-free argument for the enduring importance of Sophocles’ plays. The argument’s implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-375082025-07-31T13:59:44Z Late Sophocles Van Nortwick, Thomas Classics Clytemnestra Electra (Sophocles play) Neoptolemus Odysseus Oedipus Rex Orestes (play) Philoctetes (Sophocles play) Sophocles Theseus "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. This balanced approach, in which a detailed argument about the plays is offered in a format accessible to nonspecialists, is unusual—perhaps unique—in contemporary Classical scholarship on Sophocles. This book will appeal to nonspecialist readers of serious literature as well as scholars of classical and other literatures. While including ample guidance for those not familiar with the plays, Late Sophocles goes beyond a generalized description of “what happens” in the plays to offer a clear, jargon-free argument for the enduring importance of Sophocles’ plays. The argument’s implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated." 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:31 2020-04-01T12:49:08Z 2015-02-26 book 648345 OCN: 1017609770 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30233 9780472121083 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37508 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30233/1/648345.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30233/1/648345.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30233/1/648345.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30233/1/648345.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30233/1/648345.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30233/1/648345.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30233/1/648345.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.7711656 10.3998/mpub.7711656 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472121083 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Ann Arbor 100883 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection open access |
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