Oedipus at Colonus

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<p>This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles<em>Antigone</em>and Oedipus<em>Tyrannus</em>, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices.<br> The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Andreas Markantonatos,</strong> University of Patras, Greece.</p>

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