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Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Philoctetes of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Austin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299282732
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
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.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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:
Author : Thomas Van Nortwick
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119567
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
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
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030794977X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
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.
Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466864052
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
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.
Author : Wilmer Cave France Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
Author : Marina McCoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199672784
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
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.
Author : Marina McCoy
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438479131
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Image and Argument in Plato's Republic written by Marina McCoy and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an important, positive role in Plato's philosophical argumentation. She begins by examining the poetic educational context in which Plato is writing and then moves on to the main lines of argument and how they depend upon a variety of uses of the imagination, including paradigms, analogies, models, and myths. McCoy takes up the paradoxical nature of such key metaphysical images as the divided line and cave: on the one hand, the cave and divided line explicitly state problems with images and the visible realm. On the other hand, they are themselves images designed to draw the reader to greater intellectual understanding. The author gives a perspectival reading, arguing that the human being is always situated in between the transcendence of being and the limits of human perspective. Images can enhance our capacity to see intellectually as well as to reimagine ourselves vis-à-vis the timeless and eternal. Engaging with a wide range of continental, dramatic, and Anglo-American scholarship on images in Plato, McCoy examines the treatment of comedy, degenerate regimes, the nature of mimesis, the myth of Er, and the nature of Platonic dialogue itself.
Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Dramas written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520049574
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (495 download)
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."
Author : Ivan Mortimer Linforth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
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:
Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949729
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Theater of War written by Bryan Doerries and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.
Author : Gilbert Norwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Gilbert Norwood and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. F. Garvie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474233368
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Plays of Sophocles written by A. F. Garvie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic thinking, on the concept of the 'Sophoclean hero', and on the dramatic structure of the plays. The seven extant plays, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus are assessed and a brief concluding chapter draws together what has been said in the seven studies. This second edition has been revised fully, with an updated further reading list and more detailed information on the chorus and staging of the plays. The aim of the book is to help readers to understand why Sophocles is still worth reading, or going to see in the theatre, in the 21st century, and to show how far Sophoclean scholarship has moved in recent decades from the once prevalent view that he was a pious religious conformist who had nothing very profound or original to say, but who said it very beautifully. The volume is a companion to The Plays of Euripides (by James Morwood) and The Plays of Aeschylus (by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swift's new introductory volume, Greek Tragedy.
Author : J. Hall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230206263
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by J. Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of twelve essays aims to comprehensively represent the abundance and variety of both Heaney's writing and scholarship on Heaney's writing. Attention is given not only to his poetry but also to his translations and his prose. The essays foreground his internationalism and the complementary international interest in his writing.
