Sophocles and Alcibiades : Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature
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書誌事項
Sophocles and Alcibiades : Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature
Cornell University Press, 2008
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and indexes
収録内容
- The mythologizing of history
- Antigone, Pericles and Alcibiades
- Oedipus Tyrannus, Alcibiades, Cleon and Aspasia
- Ajax, Alcibiades and Andocides
- Philoctetes, Alcibiades, Andocides and Pericles
- Alcibiades in exile: Euripides' Cyclops
- Oedipus at Colonus, Alcibiades and Critias
- Critias and Alcibiades: Euripides' Bacchae
- Alcibiades and Melos: Thucydides 5.84-116
- Thucydides on tyrannicides : not a "digression"
- Alcibiades and Persia (and more Thucydidean "digressions")
- Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's "fine satire"
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day. Vickers shows that Sophocles was deeply involved in Athenian political life, which was often intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that Sophocles consciously or subconsciously projected onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing authors-Thucydides, Plato, and Euripides-whose work contains a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.
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