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Sophocles, the most successful tragic playwright of the age, was a radical innovator who produced his tragedies to present to his audience complex moral, social, and political issues of a kind that they might be faced with in their various legal and political assemblies.

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Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Introduction Tragedy, Athens and the Greek Cultural Mosaic Sophocles: Dramatic Beginnings Sophocles' Theatre Ajax Antigone Trachiniae Oedipus Rex Electra Philoctetes Oedipus at Colonus Conclusion Chronology Select Bibliography

Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy

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      Publisher: ABC-CLIO
      Publication Date: 3/30/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780313289460, 978-0313289460
      ISBN10: 0313289468

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Sophocles, the most successful tragic playwright of the age, was a radical innovator who produced his tragedies to present to his audience complex moral, social, and political issues of a kind that they might be faced with in their various legal and political assemblies.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Introduction Tragedy, Athens and the Greek Cultural Mosaic Sophocles: Dramatic Beginnings Sophocles' Theatre Ajax Antigone Trachiniae Oedipus Rex Electra Philoctetes Oedipus at Colonus Conclusion Chronology Select Bibliography

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