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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 tragedies* Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles* Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens* Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context* Includes 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 Zusammenfassung A Companion to Sophocles presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading scholars that address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. Initial essays introduce Sophocles extant tragedies, as well as fragments of his lost plays including the Ichneutae. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations x List of Abbreviations xi Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgments xx 1 Introduction 1 Kirk Ormand Part I Text and Author 7 2 The Textual Transmission of Sophocles' Dramas 9 P. J. Finglass 3 Sophocles' Biography 25 Ruth Scodel 4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 38 John Davidson Part II The Plays and the Fragments 53 5 Antigone 55 André Lardinois 6 Polyphonic Ajax 69 Peter Burian 7 Oedipus Tyrannus 84 Vayos Liapis 8 Electra 98 Francis Dunn 9 The Divided Worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis 111 Margaret Rachel Kitzinger 10 The Philoctetes of Sophocles 126 Paul Woodruff 11 Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy 141 Thomas Van Nortwick 12 Sophocles' Ichneutae or How to Write a Satyr Play 155 Willeon Slenders 13 Sophoclean Fragments 169 Carolin Hahnemann Part III Sophoclean Techniques 185 14 Sophocles Didaskalos 187 C. W. Marshall 15 Poetic Speakers in Sophocles 204 Sarah H. Nooter 16 Sophocles' Choruses 220 Sheila Murnaghan 17 Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles 236 Casey Dué Part IV Sophocles and Fifth-Century Political, Religious, and Intellectual Thought 251 18 Sophocles and Class 253 Peter W. Rose 19 Sophocles and Contemporary Politics 270 Robin Osborne 20 Sophocles and Athenian Law 287 Edward M. Harris 21 The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles' Theban Plays 301 Edith Hall 22 Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought 316 Robin Mitchell-Boyask 23 Sophocles and Hero Cult 331 Bruno Currie Part V Gender and Sexuality 349 24 Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles 351 Nancy Worman 25 Staging Mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the King 367 Laura McClure 26 Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social H...
