Sophocles: Philoctetes
Seiten
2013
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-86277-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-86277-6 (ISBN)
Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with morphology, grammar and syntax and interpretation of the text in its historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. The introduction also gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day.
Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It juxtaposes Homeric and fifth-century institutions and values, explores honor, power and expediency as principles of personal and political life, and represents contrasts and conflicts between innocence and experience, ends and means, and the needs and demands of the individual and those of society. This edition with commentary makes the play accessible to students, teachers, and other readers of Greek literature at all levels. The introduction discusses the main problems of interpretation and gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day.
Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It juxtaposes Homeric and fifth-century institutions and values, explores honor, power and expediency as principles of personal and political life, and represents contrasts and conflicts between innocence and experience, ends and means, and the needs and demands of the individual and those of society. This edition with commentary makes the play accessible to students, teachers, and other readers of Greek literature at all levels. The introduction discusses the main problems of interpretation and gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day.
Seth L. Schein is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of scholarly research and writing are Homeric epic and Attic tragedy.
Introduction; Philoctetes; Commentary.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.9.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 143 x 221 mm |
Gewicht | 590 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Cambridge Greek & Latin Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-86277-9 / 0521862779 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-86277-6 / 9780521862776 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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