03306oam 2200685I 450 991045961800332120220119175641.01-317-49292-71-315-71176-11-282-94727-397866129472781-84465-406-010.4324/9781315711768(CKB)2670000000066649(EBL)1886945(SSID)ssj0000674810(PQKBManifestationID)11447326(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000674810(PQKBWorkID)10662729(PQKB)11436378(MiAaPQ)EBC1886945(Au-PeEL)EBL1886945(CaPaEBR)ebr10455668(OCoLC)898104242(OCoLC)958110036(EXLCZ)99267000000006664920180706e20142008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSophocles and Alcibiades Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature /Michael VickersLondon ;New York :Routledge,2014.1 online resource (216 p.)First published 2008 by Acumen.0-367-87224-2 1-84465-123-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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; IndexLiterary 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 politicsPolitics in literatureGreek drama (Tragedy)History and criticismGreek literatureHistory and criticismAthens (Greece)In literatureElectronic books.Politics in literature.Greek drama (Tragedy)History and criticism.Greek literatureHistory and criticism.881.0109881/.0109Vickers Michael J.157707MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459618003321Sophocles and Alcibiades1224306UNINA