Sophocles: Electra (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521292580)

One of Sophocles' more accomplished dramas, the Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This 2007 edition, the first full-scale commentary on any play of Sophocles since the nineteenth century, explores afresh long-standing controversies such as the moral status of the killing of Clytemnestra, while also investigating many subjects which have traditionally attracted less attention, such as the place of rhetoric within the drama, the use of typical scenes, and allusions to epinician poetry. It provides original metrical analyses of the lyrical sections of the play and a revised Greek text. Research on the papyri, mediaeval manuscripts and printed editions has led to a more accurate apparatus criticus than ever before, with many conjectures attributed to their rightful owners.

Author: Sophocles
ISBN-10: 0521292581
ISBN-13: 9780521292580
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2011
Pages: 660
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.46d