Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles, Athens, and the World

von Andreas Markantonatos

370 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
• ISBN: 9783110193268
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2007
• Genre: Geschichte/Altertum
• Verlag: De Gruyter