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Download or read book Philoctetes written by Sophocles and published by Greek Tragedy in New Translati. This book was released on 2003 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the play. En route to fight the Trojan War, the Greek army has abandoned Philoctetes, after the smell of his festering wound, mysteriously received from a snakebite at a shrine on a small island off Lemnos, makes it unbearable to keep him on ship. Ten years later, an oracle makes it clear that the war cannot be won without the assistance of Philoctetes and his famous bow, inherited from Hercules himself. Philoctetes focuses on the attempt of Neoptolemus and the hero Odysseus to persuade the bowman to sail with them to Troy. First, though, they must assuage his bitterness over having been abandoned, and then win his trust. But how should they do this--through trickery, or with the truth? To what extent do the ends justify the means? To what degree should personal integrity be compromised for the sake of public duty? These are among the questions that Sophocles puts forward in this, one of his most morally complex and penetrating plays.
Book Synopsis Sophocles: Philoctetes by : Sophocles
Download or read book Sophocles: Philoctetes written by Sophocles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with morphology, grammar and syntax and interpretation of the text in its historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. The introduction also gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day.
Book Synopsis Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery by : Norman Austin
Download or read book Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery written by Norman Austin and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Austin brings both keen insight and a life-long engagement with his subject to this study of Sophocles’ late tragedy Philoctetes, a fifth-century BCE play adapted from an infamous incident during the Trojan War. In Sophocles’ “Philoctetes” and the Great Soul Robbery, Austin examines the rich layers of text as well as context, situating the play within the historical and political milieu of the eclipse of Athenian power. He presents a study at once of interest to the classical scholar and accessible to the general reader. Though the play, written near the end of Sophocles’ career, is not as familiar to modern audiences as his Theban plays, Philoctetes grapples with issues—social, psychological, and spiritual—that remain as much a part of our lives today as they were for their original Athenian audience.
Book Synopsis Late Sophocles by : Thomas Van Nortwick
Download or read book Late Sophocles written by Thomas Van Nortwick and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible examination of the evolution of key Sophoclean characters
Book Synopsis All That You've Seen Here Is God by : Sophocles
Download or read book All That You've Seen Here Is God written by Sophocles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medical personnel around the world. Striking for their immediacy and emotional impact, Doerries brings to life these ancient plays, like no other translations have before.
Download or read book The Cure at Troy written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the Greeks cannot win the Trojan War. They are forced to return to Lemnos and seek out Philoctetes' support in a drama that explores the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency. Heaney's version of Philoctetes is a fast-paced, brilliant work ideally suited to the stage. Heaney holds on to the majesty of the Greek original, but manages to give his verse the flavor of Irish speech and context.
Book Synopsis A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by : Wilmer Cave France Wright
Download or read book A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian written by Wilmer Cave France Wright and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Six Greek Tragedies by : Marianne McDonald
Download or read book Six Greek Tragedies written by Marianne McDonald and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of six tragedies that have had an immense influence on Western drama. They depict archtypes of the human condition and eternal dilemmas of morality and loyalty.
Book Synopsis Sophocles' Philoctetes by : Sophocles
Download or read book Sophocles' Philoctetes written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wounded Heroes written by Marina McCoy and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.
Download or read book Philoctetes written by Sophocles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, 'Philoctetes' describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring disabled master archer, Philoctetes, with them to Troy. The play covers several deep, contentious themes, including moral relativity, trauma, love vs. hatred, and friendship vs. enmity.
Book Synopsis Selected Offprints by : Ivan Mortimer Linforth
Download or read book Selected Offprints written by Ivan Mortimer Linforth and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heroic Temper written by Bernard Knox and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy. A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature. This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."
Download or read book When Heroes Sing written by Sarah Nooter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and argues that their identities are grounded in poetic identity and power. It begins by looking at how voice can be distinguished in Greek tragedy and by exploring ways that the language of tragedy was influenced by other kinds of poetry in late fifth-century Athens. In subsequent chapters, Professor Nooter undertakes close readings of Sophocles' plays to show how the voice of each hero is inflected by song and other markers of lyric poetry. She then argues that the heroes' lyrical voices set them apart from their communities and lend them the authority and abilities of poets. Close analysis of the Greek texts is supplemented by translations and discussions of poetic features more generally, such as apostrophe and address. This study offers new insight into the ways that Sophoclean tragedy inherits and refracts the traditions of other poetic genres.
Download or read book The Oresteia written by Aeschylus, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more than two millenia later. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series in this classic and authoritative translation by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, this book contains the text of all three plays - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides - with extensive scholarly annotation throughout.
Book Synopsis A Study of Sophoclean Drama by : Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood
Download or read book A Study of Sophoclean Drama written by Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in the dramatic methods of Sophocles, especially in the revelation of character, as the primary essence of Sophocles' art.
