Translated from the French. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Sophocles the Athenian -- Prelude: a snapshot of Sophocles -- The young Sophocles -- Sophocles the politician -- Sophocles the religious man -- Sophocles and Dionysus: the theatrical career -- Happy Sophocles -- Sophocles the tragic poet -- Prelude: a tragic disaster -- The mythic imagination -- Space and spectacle -- Time and action -- The characters -- Humans and the gods -- Seeing, hearing, and understanding -- Deus ex machina: time and nature -- Appendix I: presentation of Sophocles' extant tragedies -- Appendix II: Sophocles, fragments. List and presentation of the plays extant in the form of fragments -- Appendix III: the identification of Sophocles as a hellenotamias -- Appendix IV: Dio Chrysostom, discourse 52: on Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles or the bow of Philoctetes -- Appendix V.
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