Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/F08WFj Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles, Athens, and the World By: Andreas Markantonatos Publisher: De Gruyter Print ISBN: 9783110193268, 3110193264 eText ISBN: 9783110920482, 3110920484 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2007 Format: PDF Available from $ 137.99 USD SKU 9783110920482 This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices. Thebook won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.
