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    Late Sophocles

    External Review of Whole Manuscript

    The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus

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    Author(s)
    Van Nortwick, Thomas
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100883
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    "Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles’ treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die? Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book’s main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays. This balanced approach, in which a detailed argument about the plays is offered in a format accessible to nonspecialists, is unusual—perhaps unique—in contemporary Classical scholarship on Sophocles. This book will appeal to nonspecialist readers of serious literature as well as scholars of classical and other literatures. While including ample guidance for those not familiar with the plays, Late Sophocles goes beyond a generalized description of “what happens” in the plays to offer a clear, jargon-free argument for the enduring importance of Sophocles’ plays. The argument’s implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated."
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30233
    Keywords
    Classics; Clytemnestra; Electra (Sophocles play); Neoptolemus; Odysseus; Oedipus Rex; Orestes (play); Philoctetes (Sophocles play); Sophocles; Theseus
    DOI
    10.3998/mpub.7711656
    ISBN
    9780472121083
    OCN
    1017609770
    Publisher
    University of Michigan Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.press.umich.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Ann Arbor, 2015-02-26
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 100883 - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Clytemnestra - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clytemnestra; Electra (Sophocles play) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_(Sophocles_play); Neoptolemus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoptolemus; Odysseus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus; Oedipus Rex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex; Orestes (play) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(play); Philoctetes (Sophocles play) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoctetes_(Sophocles_play); Sophocles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles; Theseus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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