TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Nortwick,Thomas
TI  - Late Sophocles: The Hero's Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus 
SN  - 9780472121083
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Only a few plays by Sophoclesâ€"one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athensâ€"have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles' treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die?    Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book's main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/3ba497c8-fd85-4cf4-8ef7-f8f34edff6f4
ER  -