A Companion to Sophocles

Herausgegeben von Ormand, Kirk

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensivecollection 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 tothe fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments ofone satyr-play, the Ichneutae , in addition to each of hisextant tragedies
Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond thecurrent state of scholarship on Sophocles
Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to thesocial, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth centuryAthens
Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations ofSophocles in their historical context
Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality;significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; andreception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights

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Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1245g
• ISBN-13: 9781405187268
• ISBN-10: 1405187263
• Artikelnr.: 34550644

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Kirk Ormand Part I:
Text and Author Part II: The Plays and Fragments Part III: Sophoclean
Techniques Part IV: Sophocles and fifth century political, religious, and
intellectual thought Part V: Gender and sexuality Part VI: Historical
Interpretations Part VII: Influence and Imitation