Oedipus at Colonus
Author | : Andreas Markantonatos |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783110920482 |
ISBN-13 | : 3110920484 |
Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices. The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.