Theban Plays - 'Oedipus the Tyrant'; 'Oedipus At Colonus'; 'Antigone'

Klappentext Peter J. Ahrensdorf is James Sprunt Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Professor of Classics at Davidson College. He is the author of Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue: Creating the Foundations of Classical Civilization, Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles' Theban Plays, and The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy: An Interpretation of Platos Phaedo.Thomas L. Pangle is Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government and Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books, most recently Aristotle's Teaching in The Politics, and editor of books including The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, also from Cornell. Ahrensdorf and Pangle are coauthors of Justice among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace. Zusammenfassung Precise yet fluent translations of the timeless Theban tragedies.

Product details

• Authors: Sophocles
• Assisted by: Peter J. Ahrensdorf (Translation), Thomas L. Pangle (Translation)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2013
• EAN: 9780801452017
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5201-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Agora Editions; Agora Editions
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama