Sophocles

Description:

Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It juxtaposes Homeric and fifth-century institutions and values, explores honor, power and expediency as principles of personal and political life, and represents contrasts and conflicts between innocence and experience, ends and means, and the needs and demands of the individual and those of society. This edition with commentary makes the play accessible to students, teachers, and other readers of Greek literature at all levels. The introduction discusses the main problems of interpretation and gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day.

subjects: Drama,  Oedipus (Greek mythology),  Translations into English,  Greek drama (Tragedy),  Greek Mythology,  Greek drama,  Translations,  Antigone (Greek mythology),  Ajax (Greek mythology),  Heracles (Greek mythology),  Philoctetes (Greek mythology),  Electra (Greek mythology),  Tragedy,  Greek language materials,  Literatura grega,  Teatro,  Traductions anglaises,  Tragédie grecque,  Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author),  Islam, relations, christianity,  Plays,  Children's plays,  Greek drama, translations into english,  Drama (dramatic works by one author),  Sophocles,  Philosophy, ancient,  Greek drama, history and criticism,  Trojan War,  History and criticism,  In literature,  Criticism and interpretation,  Mythology, greek,  Antigone,  Pa4414.a5 b58 1998,  Ancient,  Classical & medieval,  Philoctetes (Greek mythology) in literature,  Art

People: Sophocles

Places: Greece