A Companion to Sophocles (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405187268)

Vendor: Kirk Ormand
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Format: Hardcover
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A Companion to Sophocles

$256.95

A Companion to Sophocles

$256.95
Format: Hardcover
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A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles.

  • First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies
  • Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles
  • Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens
  • Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context
  • Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights


Author: Kirk Ormand
ISBN-10: 1405187263
ISBN-13: 9781405187268
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2012
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.46lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2012
By Kirk Ormand
By Kirk Ormand
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Kirk Ormand is Associate Professor of Classics at Oberlin. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999) and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2008), as well as articles on Hesiod, Euripides, Lucan, Ovid, and the Greek Novel.

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