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This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices.
Thebook won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.

Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World

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      Publisher: De Gruyter
      Publication Date: 19/03/2007
      ISBN13: 9783110193268, 978-3110193268
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices.
      Thebook won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.

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