A New Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus : In the Light and Darkness of Apollo.

By:

Kawashima, Shigenari

Contributor(s):

Yamagata, Naoko

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773445949
0773445943

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: A New Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus : In the Light and Darkness of Apollo.DDC classification:

882 882.0109 882.2 882/.01 22

LOC classification:

PA4413.O7

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Contents:

A New Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: In the Light and Darkness of Apollo; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Translator's Introduction; Prologue -- Preface to Drama; Chapter 1 -- Chance (Tyche) and Irony; Chnapter 2 -- Tiresias and Creon; Chapter 3 -- Jocasta and The Oracle of Apollo; Chapter 4 -- Jocasta and Tyche (Chance); Chapter 5 -- The Second Stasimon; Chapter 6 -- Truth (Aletheia) and Daimon; Chapter 7 -- The Blind Oedipus; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: This unique and fresh interpretation of an enigmatic classic provides a better understanding of the play's religious and political undertones with an innovative and focused examination which proposes an earlier recognition than previously assumed of the whole truth by Jocasta. This will become an indispensable reference book for Classical scholars in this first ever English translation.

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This unique and fresh interpretation of an enigmatic classic provides a better understanding of the play's religious and political undertones with an innovative and focused examination which proposes an earlier recognition than previously assumed of the whole truth by Jocasta. This will become an indispensable reference book for Classical scholars in this first ever English translation.