A Companion to Sophocles

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.

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Kirk Ormand Part I: Text and Author 2. The Textual Transmission of Sophocles' Dramas: P.J. Finglass 3. Sophocles' Biography: Ruth Scodel 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides: John Davidson Part II: The Plays and Fragments 5. Antigone: Andre Lardinois 6. Polyphonic Ajax: Peter Burian 7. Oedipus Tyrannus: Vayos Liapis 8. Electra: Francis Dunn 9. The Divided Worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis: Margaret Rachel Kitzinger 10. The Philoctetes of Sophocles: Paul Woodruff 11. Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy: Thomas Van Nortwick 12. Sophocles' Ichneutai or How to Write a Satyr Play: Willeon Slenders 13. Sophoclean Fragments: Carolin Hahnemann Part III: Sophoclean Techniques 14. Sophocles Didaskalos: C.W. Marshall 15. Poetic Speakers in Sophocles: Sarah H. Nooter 16. Sophocles' Choruses: Sheila Murnaghan 17. Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles: Casey Due Part IV: Sophocles and fifth century political, religious, and intellectual thought 18. Sophocles and Class: Peter W. Rose 19. Sophocles and Contemporary Politics: Robin Osborne 20. Sophocles and Athenian Law: Edward Harris 21. The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles' Theban Plays: Edith Hall 22. Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought: Robin Mitchell-Boyask 23. Sophocles and Hero Cult: Bruno Currie Part V: Gender and sexuality 24. Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles: Nancy Worman 25. Staging Mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the King: Laura McClure 26. Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social History: Cynthia Patterson 27. Masculinity and Freedom in Sophocles: Bruce King Part VI: Historical Interpretations 28. Aristotle on Sophocles: John Kirby 29. Sophocles and Homer: Seth L. Schein 30. Facing Up To Tragedy: Towards an Intellectual History of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche: Michael Lurie 31. Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles' Antigone: Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett 32. Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth: Richard H. Armstrong 33. Sophocles with Lacan: Mark Buchan Part VII: Influence and Imitation 34. Oedipus on Oedipus: Sophocles, Seneca, Politics, and Therapy: Alex Dressler 35. Jean Anouilh's Antigone: Jed Deppman 36. Enter Antigone, let the Agones begin: Sophocles' Antigone in Nineteenth-Century Greece: Gonda Van Steen 37. Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus: Hallie Rebecca Marshall 38. Black Oedipus: Emily Wilson