LEADER 03627nam 2200541 450 001 9910265236903321 005 20230621141032.0 010 $a0-472-90107-9 010 $a0-472-12108-1 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.7711656 035 $a(CKB)3710000000761968 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5124510 035 $a(OCoLC)1017609770 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse61030 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00124845 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.7711656 035 $a(ScCtBLL)3ba497c8-fd85-4cf4-8ef7-f8f34edff6f4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6716490 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6716490 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37508 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000761968 100 $a20141230d2015 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLate Sophocles $ethe hero's evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus /$fThomas Van Nortwick 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d[2015] 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 148 pages) 311 $a0-472-11956-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : The Artist in Old Age -- Electra : Glory Bathed in Tears -- Philoctetes : The Creature in the Cave -- Oedipus at Colonus : Spiritual Geography -- Late Sophocles. 330 2 $a"Only a few plays by Sophocles--one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens--have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles' treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die? Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book's main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays. This balanced approach, in which a detailed argument about the plays is offered in a format accessible to nonspecialists, is unusual--perhaps unique--in contemporary Classical scholarship on Sophocles. This book will appeal to nonspecialist readers of serious literature as well as scholars of classical and other literatures. While including ample guidance for those not familiar with the plays, Late Sophocles goes beyond a generalized description of "what happens" in the plays to offer a clear, jargon-free argument for the enduring importance of Sophocles' plays. The argument's implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated." --$cPublisher's description 517 1 $aHero's evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Ancient & Classical$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Ancient & Classical 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 676 $a882/.01 700 $aVan Nortwick$b Thomas$f1946-$0882526 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910265236903321 996 $aLate Sophocles$92018157 997 $aUNINA