Tragedy as Symbolism It is the symbolic nature of Oedipus' quest which most centrally links the notions of Tragedy and Symbolism in the Oedipus Tyrannus, and that under the aegis of the concepts of home and homing.
Der König Ödipus des Sophokles gehört zu den berühmtesten und wirkungsmächtigsten Tragödien der Antike. Im Laufe der Handlung muss Ödipus, König von Theben, erkennen, dass er unwissentlich seinen Vater erschlagen und seine Mutter geheiratet hat, und blendet sich daraufhin. Das D…
Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic rites analyzes the poetic and narrative fuunction of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them, Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, in the context of…
Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic rites analyzes the poetic and narrative fuunction of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them, Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, in the context of…
Youth in tragedy's literary forebears and contemporaries -- Intergenerational conflict in the Aeschylean Prometheus -- The politics of age and integration in Sophocles' Antigone -- The cult of the young warrior in Euripides' Heraclidae -- Youth and limitations on personal author…
Youth in tragedy's literary forebears and contemporaries -- Intergenerational conflict in the Aeschylean Prometheus -- The politics of age and integration in Sophocles' Antigone -- The cult of the young warrior in Euripides' Heraclidae -- Youth and limitations on personal author…
This bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient world. By exploring how tragedy responded to the fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton…
