Sophocles : a study of his theater in its political and social context /

• Main Author: Jouanna, Jacques (συγγραφέας)
• Other Authors: Rendall, Steven (μεταφραστής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2018.
• Subjects: Σοφοκλής, > Ερμηνεία και κριτική > 496-406; Ελληνικό δράμα > Ιστορία και κριτική

Table of Contents:

• Sophocles the Athenian. Prelude: a snapshot of Sophocles
• The young Sophocles
• Sophocles the politician
• Sophocles the religious man
• Sophocles and Dionysus: the theatrical career
• Happy Sophocles
• Sophocles the tragic poet. Prelude: a tragic disaster
• The mythic imagination
• Space and spectacle
• Time and action
• The characters
• Humans and the gods
• Seeing, hearing, and understanding
• Deus ex machina: time and nature
• Appendix I: presentation of Sophocles' extant tragedies
• Appendix II: Sophocles, fragments. List and presentation of the plays extant in the form of fragments
• Appendix III: the identification of Sophocles as a hellenotamias
• Appendix IV: Dio Chrysostom, discourse 52: on Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles; or, the bow of Philoctetes
• Appendix V.