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  title info:
    title: Late Sophocles
    sub title: the hero's evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
  title info:
    title: Hero's evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
  name:
    name part: Van Nortwick, Thomas
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: us
    place:
      place term: Ann Arbor
    publisher: University of Michigan press
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 148 σ. ; 24 εκ.
  abstract: "Only a few plays by Sophocles--one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens--have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles' treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die? Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book's main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays. This balanced approach, in which a detailed argument about the plays is offered in a format accessible to nonspecialists, is unusual--perhaps unique--in contemporary Classical scholarship on Sophocles. This book will appeal to nonspecialist readers of serious literature as well as scholars of classical and other literatures. While including ample guidance for those not familiar with the plays, Late Sophocles goes beyond a generalized description of "what happens" in the plays to offer a clear, jargon-free argument for the enduring importance of Sophocles' plays. The argument's implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated." --
  table of contents: Introduction : The Artist in Old Age -- Electra : Glory Bathed in Tears -- Philoctetes : The Creature in the Cave -- Oedipus at Colonus : Spiritual Geography -- Late Sophocles.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Thomas Van Nortwick.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία (σ. 139-143) και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Σοφοκλής
      name part: 496-406
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Σοφοκλής
      name part: 496-406
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Σοφοκλής
      name part: 496-406
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Σοφοκλής
      name part: (496-406)
    topic: Ερμηνεία και κριτική
  classification: 882.12
  identifier: 9780472119561
  identifier: 9780472121083 (ebook)
  identifier: 2014049364
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161213
    record change date: 20210117210248.0
    record identifier: 18422348
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre