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Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic Rites analyses the poetic and narrative function of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them - Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus - in the context of her wide-ranging consideration of the entire Sophoclean corpus.

Tragic Rites Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: 1/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299313807, 978-0299313807
      ISBN10: 0299313808

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      Book Synopsis
      Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic Rites analyses the poetic and narrative function of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them - Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus - in the context of her wide-ranging consideration of the entire Sophoclean corpus.

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