Author: Gregor von Rezzori
Publisher: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, GmbH
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : de
Pages : 292

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004300945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles offers a comprehensive account of the influence, reception and appropriation of all extant Sophoclean plays, as well as the fragmentary Satyr play The Trackers, from Antiquity to Modernity, across cultures and civilizations, encompassing multiple perspectives and within a broad range of cultural trends and manifestations: literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. A concerted work by an international team of specialists in the field, the volume is addressed to a wide and multidisciplinary readership of classical reception studies, from experts to non-experts. Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern, which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition.

Author: Sophocles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Mark R. Anspach
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628953780
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 403

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Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. The Greek word for tragedy means “goat song.” Is Oedipus the goat? Helene Peet Foley calls him “the kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize.” The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus. This unique critical edition includes a new translation of the play by distinguished classics scholar Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson.

Author: Sophocles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341715474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Karl Kerényi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Sophocles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230358468
Category : Oedipus (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... DIPUS THE KING. dipus. O latest born of ancient Cadmus' race, My Theban children, with what suppliance Thus throng ye to my presence, bearing high The wands of prayer, the branches wound with wool? Rife too the city is with heavy reek Of victims slain, and rife with divers cries, The wail for healing and the moan for death. Not meet I held it, children of my realm, To know thro' lips of messengers alone Tales of your suffering. Behold me here, Great dipus, the rumour of the world. But thou, old man, say on--thou standest forth In speech to champion these that here are met-- What are ye set to seek? unto your fear What aid, or to your love what grace to crave? Right fain am I to help; yea, stern I were, And ruthless, if I recked not of such prayer. The Priest. Hear now, O king and lord of this my land: Thou seest, dipus, how to thy shrines We throng, a crowd of ages manifold. Some faltering yet on childhood's strengthless wing, Some bowed with venerable years, who serve The shrines of gods, as I of Zeus; and some Are chosen blossoms of youth's mateless flowers. And otherwhere, with crowned wands, as we, Sit other suppliants, where the marts are wide, Or by the shrines of Pallas' twofold fanes, Or by Ismenus' fires of augury. For, as thyself art witness, all too deep Wallows the city in the surge of woe, And scarce bears up her overlaboured bows From gulfs of foam incarnadined with death-- Wasting in every bud that teemed with growth, Wasting in every herd that roamed the field, And every child that quickened in the womb, The while, death's torch within his hand, the God Swoops down to rack with fellest plague the land. Void by his hand lies Cadmus' ancient hall, While the dark realm of hell is rich, full-fed...

Author: Michael John O'Brien
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Twenty-seven essays collected from books and journals for the student presenting varied and opposing reflections of Sophocles' tragedy.