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Sophocles and Alcibiades : Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature /
Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophoc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stocksfield [U.K.] :
Acumen,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day. Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 205 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781844654062 1844654060 9781317492924 1317492927 1315711761 9781315711768 1282947273 9781282947276 9786612947278 6612947276 |