Electra
by Sophocles
"One of Sophocles' more accomplished dramas, Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This edition, the first full-scale commentary on any play by Sophocles since the nineteenth century, explores afresh longstanding controversies surrounding the character of Electra and the killing of Clytemnestra, while also investigating many subjects which have traditionally attracted less attention, such as the place of rhetoric within the drama, the use of typical scenes, and allusions…
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- Full title :Electra / Sophocles ; edited with introduction and commentary by P.J. Finglass.
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"One of Sophocles' more accomplished dramas, Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This edition, the first full-scale commentary on any play by Sophocles since the nineteenth century, explores afresh longstanding controversies surrounding the character of Electra and the killing of Clytemnestra, while also investigating many subjects which have traditionally attracted less attention, such as the place of rhetoric within the drama, the use of typical scenes, and allusions to epinician poetry. It provides original metrical analyses of the lyrical sections of the play and a completely revised Greek text. New research on the papyri, mediaeval manuscripts, and printed editions has led to a more accurate apparatus criticus, with many conjectures attributed to their rightful owners for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:2007
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:grc
- Publication Date:2007
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 646 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521292580, 0521292581, 9780521868099, 0521868092
- oclc:on1313250062
- LC Classification:PA4413
- Dewey Decimal:882.01
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Text and critical apparatus -- Index siglorum -- Commentary -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Indexes
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