Sophocles' tragic world : divinity, nature, society
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Sophocles' tragic world : divinity, nature, society
Harvard University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work focuses not on the heroic figures of Sophocles's dramas, but on the world that inspired and motivated their actions. The author studies five of Sophocles's seven extant plays: "Ajax", "Oedipus Tyrranus", "Philoctetes", "Antigone" and "Trachinian Women".
Table of Contents
- Drama and perspective in "Ajax"
- myth, poetry and heroic values in the "Trachinian Women"
- time, oracles and marriage in the "Trachinian Women"
- Philoctetes and the imperishable piety
- lament and closure in "Antigone"
- time and knowledge in the tragedy of Oedipus
- Freud, language and the unconscious
- the gods and the chorus - Zeus in "Oedipus Tyrannus"
- Earth in "Oedipus Tyrannus".
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