Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World

By Andreas Markantonatos

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110193264
• ISBN13: 9783110193268
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary