Late Sophocles: The Hero's Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus

by Thomas Van Nortwick

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472119567
• ISBN13: 9780472119561
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"