Sophocles and Alcibiades
Subtitle: Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature
By: Michael Vickers.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801447327
Subjects: Alcibiades -- In literature; Sophocles -- Characters -- Alcibiades; Sophocles -- Criticism and interpretation; Politics in literature; Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Greek literature -- History and criticism; Athens (Greece) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mythologizing of history; title: Sophocles' Antigone, Pericles and Alcibiades; title: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, Alcibiades, Cleon and Aspasia; title: Sophocles' Ajax, Alcibiades and Andocides; title: Sophocles' Philoctetes, Alcibiades, Andocides and Pericles; title: Alcibiades in exile : Euripides' Cyclops; title: Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Alcibiades and Critias; title: Critias and Alcibiades : Euripides' Bacchae; title: Alcibiades and Melos : Thucydides 5.84-116; title: Thucydides on tyrannicides : not a "digression"; title: Alcibiades and Persia (and more Thucydidean "digressions"); title: Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's "fine satire."