In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintilian's defin
In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he
This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, soci
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best a
An illustrated introduction to ancient Greek tragedy, written by one of its most distinguished experts, which provides all the background information necessary