A Companion to Sophocles

Kirk Ormand 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 03월 05일 출간

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A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles.First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragediesFeatures new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on SophoclesPresents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century AthensSeeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical contextIncludes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights

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List of Illustrations xList of Abbreviations xiNotes on Contributors xvAcknowledgments xx1 Introduction 1Kirk OrmandPART I Text and Author 72 The Textual Transmission of Sophocles&- Dramas 9P. J. Finglass3 Sophocles&- Biography 25Ruth Scodel4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 38John DavidsonPART II The Plays and the Fragments 535 Antigone 55André Lardinois6 Polyphonic Ajax 69Peter Burian7 Oedipus Tyrannus 84Vayos Liapis8 Electra 98Francis Dunn9 The Divided Worlds of Sophocles&- Women of Trachis 111Margaret Rachel Kitzinger10 The Philoctetes of Sophocles 126Paul Woodruff11 Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy 141Thomas Van Nortwick12 Sophocles&- Ichneutae or How to Write a Satyr Play 155Willeon Slenders13 Sophoclean Fragments 169Carolin HahnemannPART III Sophoclean Techniques 18514 Sophocles Didaskalos 187C. W. Marshall15 Poetic Speakers in Sophocles 204Sarah H. Nooter16 Sophocles&- Choruses 220Sheila Murnaghan17 Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles 236Casey DuéPART IV Sophocles and Fifth-Century Political, Religious, and Intellectual Thought 25118 Sophocles and Class 253Peter W. Rose19 Sophocles and Contemporary Politics 270Robin Osborne20 Sophocles and Athenian Law 287Edward M. Harris21 The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles&- Theban Plays 301Edith Hall22 Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought 316Robin Mitchell-Boyask23 Sophocles and Hero Cult 331Bruno CurriePART V Gender and Sexuality 34924 Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies

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“This volume will indeed serve as an indispensable reference point for the future study of Sophocles.”& (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 January 2013)“Although the book is scholarly and packed with information, it is accessible to nonspecialists.& Summing Up: Highly recommended.& Upper-division undergraduates and above.”& (Choice, 1 November 2012)

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저자(글) Kirk Ormand

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Kirk Ormand is Associate Professor of Classics at Oberlin. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999) and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2008), as well as articles on Hesiod, Euripides, Lucan, Ovid, and the Greek Novel.