Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles, Athens, and the World
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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 Sophoclesâ?? 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.
Thebook won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.
