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Sophocles : a study of his theater in its political and social context
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Sophocle. English
Title
Sophocles : a study of his theater in its political and social context / Jacques Jouanna ; translated by Steven Rendall.
ISBN
9780691172071
0691172072
Publication
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
883 pages ; 25 cm
Notes
Translated from the French.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 18, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Sophocles the Athenian
Prelude: a snapshot of Sophocles
The young Sophocles
Sophocles the politician
Sophocles the religious man
Sophocles and Dionysus: the theatrical career
Happy Sophocles
Sophocles the tragic poet
Prelude: a tragic disaster
The mythic imagination
Space and spectacle
Time and action
The characters
Humans and the gods
Seeing, hearing, and understanding
Deus ex machina: time and nature
Appendix I: presentation of Sophocles' extant tragedies
Appendix II: Sophocles, fragments. List and presentation of the plays extant in the form of fragments
Appendix III: the identification of Sophocles as a hellenotamias
Appendix IV: Dio Chrysostom, discourse 52: on Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles or the bow of Philoctetes
Appendix V.
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