Sophocles : : A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context / / Jacques Jouanna.
Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I. Sophocles the Athenian
- Prelude: A Snapshot of Sophocles
- Chapter I. The Young Sophocles
- Chapter II. Sophocles the Politician
- Chapter III. Sophocles the Religious Man
- Chapter IV. Sophocles and Dionysus: The Theatrical Career
- Chapter V. Happy Sophocles
- Part II. Sophocles the Tragic Poet
- Prelude: A Tragic Disaster
- Chapter VI. The Mythic Imagination
- Chapter VII. Space and Spectacle
- Chapter VIII. Time and Action
- Chapter IX. The Characters
- Chapter X. Humans and the Gods
- Chapter XI. 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
- Notes
- Bibliographical Guide
- List of Translations Used in the English Edition
- General Index
- Index Locorum