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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459618003321

Autore

Vickers Michael J.

Titolo

Sophocles and Alcibiades : Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature / / Michael Vickers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-49292-7

1-315-71176-1

1-282-94727-3

9786612947278

1-84465-406-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

881.0109

881/.0109

Soggetti

Politics in literature

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Greek literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Athens (Greece) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Acumen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The mythologizing of history; 2 Antigone, Pericles and Alcibiades; 3 Oedipus Tyrannus, Alcibiades, Cleon and Aspasia; 4 Ajax, Alcibiades and Andocides; 5 Philoctetes, Alcibiades, Andocides and Pericles; 6 Alcibiades in exile: Euripides' Cyclops; 7 Oedipus at Colonus, Alcibiades and Critias; 8 Critias and Alcibiades: Euripides' Bacchae; 9 Alcibiades and Melos: Thucydides 5.84-116; 10 Thucydides on tyrannicides: not a ""digression""; 11 Alcibiades and Persia (and more Thucydidean ""digressions"")

12 Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's ""fine satire""Epilogue; Bibliography; Index locorum; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and



that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics