Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles, Athens, and the World
Format:Hardback
Publisher:De Gruyter
Published:19th Mar '07
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
ISBN: 9783110193268
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 704g
370 pages
Reprint 2012