Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War book 2 (esp. 47.3-54).

About the author

Pantelis Michelakis is Director of The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Fellow of St Hilda's College, and Associate Professor of Classical Reception at the University of Oxford. He has previously held positions at the University of Bristol and Wolfson College Oxford. He is the author of Greek Tragedy on Screen (2013), Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis (2006), and Achilles in Greek Tragedy (2002).

Product details

• Authors: Michelakis Pantelis
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.02.2026
• EAN: 9780198844105
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884410-5
• Series: Classics in Theory Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts