Sophocles : a study of his theater in its political and social context / Jacques Jouanna ; translated by Steven Rendall.
Jouanna, Jacques, author.; Rendall, Steven, translator.
2018
PA4417 .J6913 2018 (Mapit)
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Title Sophocles : a study of his theater in its political and social context / Jacques Jouanna ; translated by Steven Rendall.
Author Jouanna, Jacques, author.
Uniform Title Sophocle. English
ISBN 9780691172071 (hardcover)
0691172072 (hardcover)
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Language English
Description 883 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number PA4417 .J6913 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 882/.01
Summary "Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century." -- Publisher's description
Note Translated from the French.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author Rendall, Steven, translator.
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Sophocles the Athenian
Prelude: a snapshot of Sophocles
The young Sophocles
Sophocles the politician
Sophocles the religious man
Sophocles and Dionysus: the theatrical career
Happy Sophocles
Sophocles the tragic poet
Prelude: a tragic disaster
The mythic imagination
Space and spectacle
Time and action
The characters
Humans and the gods
Seeing, hearing, and understanding
Deus ex machina: time and nature
Appendix I: presentation of Sophocles' extant tragedies
Appendix II: Sophocles, fragments. List and presentation of the plays extant in the form of fragments
Appendix III: the identification of Sophocles as a hellenotamias
Appendix IV: Dio Chrysostom, discourse 52: on Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles or the bow of Philoctetes
Appendix V.

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