Brill's Companion to Sophocles

by Markantonatos, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9789004184923
• ISBN10: 9004184929
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Brill's Companion to Sophocles offers 32 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Sophoclean drama. Each chapter offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area, as well as covering a wide variety of thematic angles. Recent advances in scholarship have raised new questions about Sophocles and Greek tragedy, and have overturned some long-standing assumptions. Besides presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Sophocles, this companion provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Sophoclean studies.

Author Biography

Andreas Markantonatos, Ph.D. (2001) in Classics, University of Oxford, teaches Greek at the University of the Peloponnese. He has published extensively on Greek tragedy including Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus (2002) and Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World {2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
List of Illustrations	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Introduction: Sophocles and His Critics	p. 1
The Poet and his Work
Biography	p. 19
Text and Transmission	p. 39
Ajax	p. 59
Electra	p. 73
Oedipus Tyrannus	p. 93
Antigone	p. 111
Trachiniae	p. 129
Philoctetes	p. 149
Oedipus at Colonus	p. 167
Fragments and Lost Tragedies	p. 191
The Satyr Plays of Sophocles	p. 211
Sophoclean Intertextuality
The Homer of Tragedy: Epic Sources and Models in Sophocles	p. 245
Dynamic Allusion in Sophocles	p. 263
Sophocles the Innovator: Music, Language, Narrative
Sophocles and Music	p. 283
The Language of Sophocles	p. 305
Oedipus, Odysseus, and the Failure of Rhetoric	p. 325
Narratology of Drama: Sophocles the Storyteller	p. 349
Image and Performance
(Mis)Representations of Sophocles' Plays?	p. 369
Sophoclean Choruses	p. 385
Religion, History, and Politics
Ritual in Sophocles	p. 411
Gods and Heroes in Sophocles	p. 429
Political Tragedy: Sophocles and Athenian History	p. 447
Sophocles and Political Thought	p. 471
Sophoclean Anthropology: Status and Gender
Women's Voices in Sophocles	p. 491
Minor Characters in Sophocles	p. 507
Instructing the Polis: Education, Philosophy, Irony
Sophocles and Education	p. 515
Sophocles and Philosophy	p. 537
Sophocles the Ironist	p. 563
Ancients and Moderns: The Reception of Sophocles
The Reception of Sophocles in Antiquity	p. 581
The Influence of Sophocles on Modern Literature and the Arts	p. 601
'Men as They Ought to Be': Sophocles in Translation	p. 619
Sophocles Made New: Modern Performances	p. 641
Bibliography	p. 661
Index of Subjects	p. 715
Index of Principal Sophoclean Passages	p. 726
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