Tragédies complètes
Les Trachiniennes. Antigone-Ajax. Oedipe Roi. Electre-Philoctète. Oedipe à Colone
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The dominant Athenian playwright in 5th-century-BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock as they render the violence that erupts within divinity & humankind. Oedipus the King , Oedipus at Kolonos & Antigone trace three generations of a family manipulated by the inscrutably vindictive god Apollo to commit patricide, incest & kin murder. Elektra & Women of Trakhis begin as studies of women obsessed with hatred & desire but become dissenting critiques of the Greeks’ enthusiasm for revenge & ego-crazed heroics. Two hard-hitting dramas set in war zones, Aias & Philoktetes , use conflicts among Greek warriors at Troy to thrash out political & ethical crises confronting Athenian society itself.
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Tragédies complètes, Sophocles, Pierre Vidal Naquet
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- Released
- 1973
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Tragédies complètes
- Subtitle
- Les Trachiniennes. Antigone-Ajax. Oedipe Roi. Electre-Philoctète. Oedipe à Colone
- Language
- French
- Authors
- Sophocles, Pierre Vidal Naquet
- Publisher
- Folio
- Released
- 1973
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN10
- 2070363600
- ISBN13
- 9782070363605
- Series
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
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- The dominant Athenian playwright in 5th-century-BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock as they render the violence that erupts within divinity & humankind. Oedipus the King , Oedipus at Kolonos & Antigone trace three generations of a family manipulated by the inscrutably vindictive god Apollo to commit patricide, incest & kin murder. Elektra & Women of Trakhis begin as studies of women obsessed with hatred & desire but become dissenting critiques of the Greeks’ enthusiasm for revenge & ego-crazed heroics. Two hard-hitting dramas set in war zones, Aias & Philoktetes , use conflicts among Greek warriors at Troy to thrash out political & ethical crises confronting Athenian society itself.