Sophocles: Philoctetes

Informationen zum Autor Seth L. Schein is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of scholarly research and writing are Homeric epic and Attic tragedy. Klappentext Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Zusammenfassung Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with morphology! grammar and syntax and interpretation of the text in its historical! social! cultural and intellectual contexts. The introduction also gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Philoctetes; Commentary.

Product details

• Authors: Sophocles
• Assisted by: Seth Schein (Editor), Seth L. (University of California Schein (Editor), Schein Seth L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9780521862776
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86277-6
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Theatre Studies, Literature & literary studies, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights