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Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles, Athens, and the World

Andreas Markantonatos author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:19th Mar '07

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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