The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611863392 ISBN 13: 9781611863390

Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 2020

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Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. The Greek word for tragedy means “goat song.” Is Oedipus the goat? Helene Peet Foley calls him “the kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize.” The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus. This unique critical edition includes a new translation of the play by distinguished classics scholar Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson.

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Mark R. Anspach is the author of Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness and the editor of Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire, by René Girard.

Wm. Blake Tyrrell is Distinguished Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. He is the author of works including The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard and coauthor of Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1611863392
• ISBN 13: 9781611863390
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 473
• Herausgeber: Anspach Mark R.
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