Sophocles: Trachiniae
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-10-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521287760
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Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Author: Gesthimani Seferiadi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1350260339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book-length examination of the notion of gendered politics in Sophocles' Trachiniae. Making use of feminist theory and tackling the political nature of the categories of identity, culture and sexuality, Seferiadi brings the interpretation of Sophocles' play up-to-date with the most recent scholarly developments. She discusses the play in the light of its Amazonian and monstrous background and touches upon topics such as marriage and the exchange of women; reciprocity within a corroded system of gift-exchanges; and the dynamics of female silence and the 'impaired' hegemonic masculinity. Contributing to the topic of rape in the ancient world, this book focuses on sexual violence and the intertwinement of marriage and rape from the perspective of tragedy. With an Amazon being placed within the civilized arrangement of an oikos, the play negotiates the position of the female and advocates the need to expel the monstrous sexualities from the polis. Differing from previous analyses, this study is a reminder that female subjectivity was less foreclosed than is often tacitly assumed.
Trachiniae of Sophocles
Tragic Rhetoric
Author: Bruce A. Heiden
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This innovative study of Sophocles' Trachiniae deepens our appreciation of the enigmatic nature of Sophoclean tragedy and its place in the Athens of the Sophists. By carefully examining the play's narrative and rhetorical strategies, Bruce Heiden shows that the plot of Trachiniae must be constructed by the creative interpretation of the spectator or reader, and he demonstrates that Sophocles' extensive use of speeches reporting offstage events dramatizes the very problems that arise when rhetorical claims of knowledge conceal acts of interpretation. Tragic Rhetoric will interest both classicists and students of literary theory.
The Trachiniae of Sophocles
Author: Gilbert A. Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1107429145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contains the ancient Greek text of Sophocles' Trachiniae, accompanied by detailed notes abridged from the commentary by Sir Richard Jebb.
Trachiniae
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sophocles' Trachiniae has traditionally been his least popular play, but it is now generally agreed that its tragic vision of life is perfectly compatible with that of his other dramas. The introduction to this important new commentary deals with the play's merits, the question of its unity, its treatment of the hero Heracles, the story's pre-Sophoclean tradition, and the evidence of contemporary art. Much of the commentary itself is devoted to textual problems that arise from the frequently corrupt and uncertain text, as well as wider issues of interpretation.
Sophocles
A Companion to Sophocles
Author: Kirk Ormand
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 1119025532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights
The Trachiniae of Sophocles
The Trachiniae of Sophocles
