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A Companion to Sophocles


A Companion to Sophocles


Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, Band 171 1. Aufl.

von: Kirk Ormand

38,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 05.03.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781444356892
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 624

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<i>A Companion to Sophocles</i> presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the <i>Ichneutae</i>, in addition to each of his extant tragedies</li> <li>Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles</li> <li>Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens</li> <li>Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context</li> <li>Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights</li> </ul>
List of Illustrations x <p>List of Abbreviations xi</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xv</p> <p>Acknowledgments xx</p> <p>1 Introduction 1<br /><i>Kirk Ormand</i></p> <p><b>PART I Text and Author 7</b></p> <p>2 The Textual Transmission of Sophocles’ Dramas 9<br /><i>P. J. Finglass</i></p> <p>3 Sophocles’ Biography 25<br /><i>Ruth Scodel</i></p> <p>4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 38<br /><i>John Davidson</i></p> <p><b>Part II The Plays and the Fragments 53</b></p> <p>5 Antigone 55<br /><i>André Lardinois</i></p> <p>6 Polyphonic Ajax 69<br /><i>Peter Burian</i></p> <p>7 Oedipus Tyrannus 84<br /><i>Vayos Liapis</i></p> <p>8 Electra 98<br /><i>Francis Dunn</i></p> <p>9 The Divided Worlds of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis 111<br /><i>Margaret Rachel Kitzinger</i></p> <p>10 The Philoctetes of Sophocles 126<br /><i>Paul Woodruff</i></p> <p>11 Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy 141<br /><i>Thomas Van Nortwick</i></p> <p>12 Sophocles’ Ichneutae or How to Write a Satyr Play 155<br /><i>Willeon Slenders</i></p> <p>13 Sophoclean Fragments 169<br /><i>Carolin Hahnemann</i></p> <p><b>Part III Sophoclean Techniques 185</b></p> <p>14 Sophocles Didaskalos 187<br /><i>C. W. Marshall</i></p> <p>15 Poetic Speakers in Sophocles 204<br /><i>Sarah H. Nooter</i></p> <p>16 Sophocles’ Choruses 220<br /><i>Sheila Murnaghan</i></p> <p>17 Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles 236<br /><i>Casey Dué</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Sophocles and Fifth-Century Political, Religious, and Intellectual Thought 251</b></p> <p>18 Sophocles and Class 253<br /><i>Peter W. Rose</i></p> <p>19 Sophocles and Contemporary Politics 270<br /><i>Robin Osborne</i></p> <p>20 Sophocles and Athenian Law 287<br /><i>Edward M. Harris</i></p> <p>21 The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles’ Theban Plays 301<br /><i>Edith Hall</i></p> <p>22 Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought 316<br /><i>Robin Mitchell-Boyask</i></p> <p>23 Sophocles and Hero Cult 331<br /><i>Bruno Currie</i></p> <p><b>Part V Gender and Sexuality 349</b></p> <p>24 Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles 351<br /><i>Nancy Worman</i></p> <p>25 Staging Mothers in Sophocles’ Electra and Oedipus the King 367<br /><i>Laura McClure</i></p> <p>26 Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social History 381<br /><i>Cynthia Patterson</i></p> <p>27 Masculinity and Freedom in Sophocles 395<br /><i>Bruce M. King</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Historical Interpretations 409</b></p> <p>28 Aristotle on Sophocles 411<br /><i>John T. Kirby</i></p> <p>29 Sophocles and Homer 424<br /><i>Seth L. Schein</i></p> <p>30 Facing Up to Tragedy: Toward an Intellectual History of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche 440<br /><i>Michael Lurie</i></p> <p>31 Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles’ Antigone 462<br /><i>Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett</i></p> <p>32 Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth 477<br /><i>Richard H. Armstrong</i></p> <p>33 Sophocles with Lacan 492<br /><i>Mark Buchan</i></p> <p><b>Part VII Influence and Imitation 505</b></p> <p>34 Oedipus on Oedipus: Sophocles, Seneca, Politics, and Therapy 507<br /><i>Alex Dressler</i></p> <p>35 Jean Anouilh’s Antigone 523<br /><i>Jed Deppman</i></p> <p>36 Enter Antigone, Let the Agones Begin: Sophocles’ Antigone in Nineteenth-Century Greece 538<br /><i>Gonda Van Steen</i></p> <p>37 Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus 557<br /><i>Hallie Rebecca Marshall</i></p> <p>38 Black Oedipus 572<br /><i>Emily Wilson</i></p> <p>Index Locorum 586</p> <p>Index 590</p>
<p>“This volume will indeed serve as an indispensable reference point for the future study of Sophocles.”  (<i>Bryn Mawr Classical Review</i>, 1 January 2013)</p> <p>“Although the book is scholarly and packed with information, it is accessible to nonspecialists.  Summing Up: Highly recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (<i>Choice</i>, 1 November 2012)</p>
<b>Kirk Ormand</b> is Professor of Classics at Oberlin. He is author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999), Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2009), and The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (2014).
<p>“This volume will indeed serve as an indispensable reference point for the future study of Sophocles.”<br /><i>Bryn Mawr Classical Review</i></p> <p>“Although the book is scholarly and packed with information, it is accessible to nonspecialists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”<br /><i>Choice</i></p> <p>Few literary figures have gained more immediate – or more long-lasting – critical acclaim than the ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles. From Sophocles’ first victory in the Athenian spring drama competition in 468 BCE, his works went on to become celebrated for tackling such thorny issues as personal will, divine justice, and the limitations of human knowledge. His development of the self-motivated hero’s inevitable clash with unavoidable circumstances is widely recognized as the birth of Western tragedy. A Companion to Sophocles presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading scholars that address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. Initial essays introduce Sophocles’ extant tragedies as well as fragments of his lost plays, including the Ichneutae. Subsequent readings explore Sophocles’ relation to the intellectual, social, and political currents of fifth-century Athens; issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and the reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights. A Companion to Sophocles offers illuminating insights into one of the most influential dramatists the world has ever known.</p>

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