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Book Sophocles  Ajax  Electra  Trachiniae  Philoctetes  Fragments

Download or read book Sophocles Ajax Electra Trachiniae Philoctetes Fragments written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sophocles  Ajax  Electra  Trachiniae  Philoctetes

Download or read book Sophocles Ajax Electra Trachiniae Philoctetes written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All That You ve Seen Here Is God

Download or read book All That You ve Seen Here Is God written by Sophocles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medical personnel around the world. Striking for their immediacy and emotional impact, Doerries brings to life these ancient plays, like no other translations have before.

Book Four Tragedies

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 2007-03-09
  • ISBN : 160384418X
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Four Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meineck and Woodruff's new translations of these plays combine accuracy with concision, clarity, and powerful speech. Each translation includes foot-of-the-page notes, stage directions, and line numbers to the Greek. The Introduction discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, plots and major characters of each play, and major critical interpretations of the plays.

Book Tragic Rites

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  • Author : Adriana E. Brook
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0299313808
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Tragic Rites written by Adriana E. Brook and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.

Book When Heroes Sing

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  • Author : Sarah Nooter
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-05-31
  • ISBN : 1139510479
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book When Heroes Sing written by Sarah Nooter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and argues that their identities are grounded in poetic identity and power. It begins by looking at how voice can be distinguished in Greek tragedy and by exploring ways that the language of tragedy was influenced by other kinds of poetry in late fifth-century Athens. In subsequent chapters, Professor Nooter undertakes close readings of Sophocles' plays to show how the voice of each hero is inflected by song and other markers of lyric poetry. She then argues that the heroes' lyrical voices set them apart from their communities and lend them the authority and abilities of poets. Close analysis of the Greek texts is supplemented by translations and discussions of poetic features more generally, such as apostrophe and address. This study offers new insight into the ways that Sophoclean tragedy inherits and refracts the traditions of other poetic genres.

Book Sophocles  Philoctetes

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Sophocles Philoctetes written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Late Sophocles

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  • Author : Thomas Van Nortwick
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2015-02-26
  • ISBN : 0472119567
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Late Sophocles written by Thomas Van Nortwick and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible examination of the evolution of key Sophoclean characters

Book Aiax

Download or read book Aiax written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scholia vetera in Sophoclis  Oedipum Coloneum

Download or read book Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Oedipum Coloneum written by Georgios A. Xenis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient scholia to Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus shed light on Alexandrian ways of engaging with this play, and are richer than those to the other Sophoclean plays. The last editor, Vittorio de Marco (1952), established a better text of these scholia than his predecessors, in as much as he had a fuller knowledge of their manuscript tradition and a better understanding of their stratified nature. Still, his work is marred by a number of inaccuracies, omissions and methodological shortcomings. The new edition by Georgios Xenis improves on de Marco’s work by a careful examination of all the sources of the text and the conjectures proposed by scholars, and by relying on a clearly defined methodological framework. In this edition the scholia to the Oedipus at Colonus are restored in a textual state that is arguably the earliest we can recover, and is free of contradictions, unacceptable repetitions, and hybridisation or blending of elements from different versions. The critical text is accompanied by a detailed apparatus criticus, and is contextualised in its ancient scholarly tradition by means of a rich array of passages drawn from comparable sources. Extensive indices are provided at the end of the volume. The edition will be an invaluable resource for those engaged in the interpretation of Sophocles’ tragedies and, in particular, of the Oedipus at Colonus, and will be of interest to classicists working on ancient literary criticism and ancient scholarship.

Book The Tragedies of Sophocles

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  • Author : James Morwood
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781904675723
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book The Tragedies of Sophocles written by James Morwood and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an essay that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy and a final chapter that spotlights a key moment in the reception of each work.Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, Morwood refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces. Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, Morwood refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.

Book The Other Four Plays of Sophocles

Download or read book The Other Four Plays of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays of Sophocles. There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragedies—the "other four plays:" Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes. Punchy and entertaining, Slavitt reads Athena's opening line in Ajax as: "I’ve got my eye on you, Odysseus. Always." By simplifying the Greek and making obscure designations more accessible—specifying the character Athena in place of “aegis-wearing goddess,” for example—his translations are highly performable. The Other Four Plays of Sophocles will help students discover underlying thematic connections across plays as well. Praise for David R. Slavitt "Slavitt's translation is . . . lively and sometimes witty."—Times Literary Supplement, reviewing Slavitt's translation of Seneca "The best version of Ovid's Metamorphoses available in English today . . . It is readable, alive, at times slangy, and actually catches Ovid's tone."—Philadelphia Inquirer, reviewing Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid "Slavitt's ability is clearly in evidence . . . These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome."—Classical Outlook, reviewing Slavitt's translation of Seneca "Excellent translations that suit the ear and strengthen the feeble spirit of the time . . . One will do well to read these hymns, these poems, and find nourishment in them in Slavitt's translations."—Anglican Theological Review, reviewing Slavitt’s translation of Hymns of Prudentius

Book Sophocles  1

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 1998-05
  • ISBN : 9780812216530
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Sophocles 1 written by Sophocles and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jealousy and suicide, love and passion, grief and intrigue, honor and deceit are the order of the day in four of Sophocles's great tragedies. The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of classical Greek drama. The aim of the series is to make both the works and their interpretations accessible to the reading public.

Book Sophocles II

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Sophocles II written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exchange and the Maiden

Download or read book Exchange and the Maiden written by Kirk Ormand and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage. Ormand takes a two-fold approach. He first explores the legal and economic underpinnings of Athenian marriage, an institution designed to guarantee the legitimate continuation of patrilineal households. He then shows how Sophocles' plays Trachiniae, Electra, Antigone, Ajax, and Oedipus Tyrannus both reinforce and critique this ideology by representing marriage as a homosocial exchange between men, in which women are objects who may attempt—but always fail—to become self-acting subjects. These fresh readings provide the first systematic study of marriage in Sophocles. They draw important connections between drama and marriage as rituals concerned with controlling potentially disruptive female subjectivities.

Book Objects as Actors

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  • Author : Melissa Mueller
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-01-13
  • ISBN : 022631300X
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Objects as Actors written by Melissa Mueller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items—theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of objects in the staging and reception of Athenian tragedy. As Mueller shows, props such as weapons, textiles, and even letters were often fully integrated into a play’s action. They could provoke surprising plot turns, elicit bold viewer reactions, and provide some of tragedy’s most thrilling moments. Whether the sword of Sophocles’s Ajax, the tapestry in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, or the tablet of Euripides’s Hippolytus, props demanded attention as a means of uniting—or disrupting—time, space, and genre. Insightful and original, Objects as Actors offers a fresh perspective on the central tragic texts—and encourages us to rethink ancient theater as a whole.

Book Five Great Greek Tragedies

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2015-02-03
  • ISBN : 0486113884
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Five Great Greek Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson).