Prophesying Tragedy : : Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays / / Rebecca Weld Bushnell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bushnell, Rebecca Weld,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliteration --; Chapter 1. The Voice of Prophecy --; Chapter 2. The Nature of Signs --; Chapter 3. Speech and Authority: Antigone --; Chapter 4. Speech and Silence: Oedipus the King --; Chapter 5. The Heroic Prophet: Oedipus at Co/onus --; Epilogue: Euripides and the Erasure of Prophecy --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745584; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745584
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rebecca Weld Bushnell.

Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens.