| Oedipus Tyrannus: A Norton Critical Edition Contributor(s): Sophocles (Author), Berkowitz, Luci (Editor), Brunner, Theodore F. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393098745 ISBN-13: 9780393098747 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1970 Annotation: The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. Among the background materials are selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripides' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, permitting discussion from many points of view: psychological, religious, anthropological, dramatic, and literary. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 892.726 |
| LCCN: 74081157 |
| Lexile Measure: 1110 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.1" W x 8.33" (0.63 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. Passages from Ancient Authors includes selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripedes' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, encouraging discussion from psychological, religious, anthropological, dramatic, and literary perspectives. Under the heading Religion and Psychology are included writings on the Oedipus myth by Martin P. Nilsson, Meyer Fortes, Gordon M. Kirkwood, Thalia Phillies Feldman, and Sigmund Freud. The authors of the selections in Criticism are Aristotle, C. M. Bowra, R. C. Jebb, S. M. Adams, A. J. A. Waldock, Albin Lesky, Werner Jaeger, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Jones, D. W. Lucas, Bernard M. W. Knox, Cedric H. Whitman, Richmond Lattimore, Robert Cohen, Francis Fergusson, and H. D. F. Kitto. The special question of Oedipus's guilt or innocence is addressed in essays by J. T. Sheppard, Laszlo Versenyi, P. H. Vellacott, E. R. Dodds, Thomas Gould, and Philip Wheelwright. |
Contributor Bio(s): Berkowitz, Luci: - Luci Berkowitz is Research Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-author of The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works, now in its third edition.Brunner, Theodore F.: - Theodore F. Brunner is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California, Irvine, and founding director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. He is author of numerous scholarly articles. |