The Complete Sophocles - The Theban Plays

Informationen zum Autor Peter Burian is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies, Duke University Alan Shapiro is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Klappentext This volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. Zusammenfassung This volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. Inhaltsverzeichnis Oedipus the King Introduction Oedipus the King Notes Oedipus at Colonus Introduction Oedipus at Colonus Notes Antigone Introduction Antigone Notes Glossary For Further Reading

Product details

• Authors: Peter Burian, Peter (EDT)/ Shapiro Burian, Sophocles
• Assisted by: Peter Burian (Editor), Alan Shapiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2010
• EAN: 9780195388800
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538880-0
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations; Greek Tragedy in New Translati; Greek Tragedy in New Translations; Greek Tragedy in New Translati
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies