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200 10$aSophocles and Alcibiades $eAthenian politics in ancient Greek literature /$fMichael Vickers
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2014.
215   $a1 online resource (216 p.)
300   $aFirst published 2008 by Acumen.
311   $a0-367-87224-2 
311   $a1-84465-123-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aCover; 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"")
327   $a12 Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's ""fine satire""Epilogue; Bibliography; Index locorum; Index
330   $aLiterary 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
606   $aPolitics in literature
606   $aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism
607   $aAthens (Greece)$xIn literature
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aPolitics in literature.
615  0$aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism.
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