Late Sophocles
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Feb 26, 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780472119561; 9780472121083
Description: 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 to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die?

Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book?s main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays.
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