Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World

· Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte Book 87 · Walter de Gruyter
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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.
The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.

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Andreas Markantonatos, University of Patras, Greece.

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