Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
List of Abbreviations xi
Notes on Contributors xv
Acknowledgments xx
1 Introduction 1 Kirk Ormand
Part I Text and Author 7
2 The Textual Transmission of Sophocles’ Dramas 9 P. J. Finglass
3 Sophocles’ Biography 25 Ruth Scodel
4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 38 John Davidson
Part II The Plays and the Fragments 53
5 Antigone 55 André Lardinois
6 Polyphonic Ajax 69 Peter Burian
7 Oedipus Tyrannus 84 Vayos Liapis
8 Electra 98 Francis Dunn
9 The Divided Worlds of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis 111 Margaret Rachel Kitzinger
10 The Philoctetes of Sophocles 126 Paul Woodruff
11 Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy 141 Thomas Van Nortwick
12 Sophocles’ Ichneutae or How to Write a Satyr Play 155 Willeon Slenders
13 Sophoclean Fragments 169 Carolin Hahnemann
Part III Sophoclean Techniques 185
14 Sophocles Didaskalos 187 C. W. Marshall
15 Poetic Speakers in Sophocles 204 Sarah H. Nooter
16 Sophocles’ Choruses 220 Sheila Murnaghan
17 Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles 236 Casey Dué
Part IV Sophocles and Fifth-Century Political, Religious, and Intellectual Thought 251
18 Sophocles and Class 253 Peter W. Rose
19 Sophocles and Contemporary Politics 270 Robin Osborne
20 Sophocles and Athenian Law 287 Edward M. Harris
21 The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles’ Theban Plays 301 Edith Hall
22 Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought 316 Robin Mitchell-Boyask
23 Sophocles and Hero Cult 331 Bruno Currie
Part V Gender and Sexuality 349
24 Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles 351 Nancy Worman
25 Staging Mothers in Sophocles’ Electra and Oedipus the King 367 Laura McClure
26 Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social History 381 Cynthia Patterson
27 Masculinity and Freedom in Sophocles 395 Bruce M. King
Part VI Historical Interpretations 409
28 Aristotle on Sophocles 411 John T. Kirby
29 Sophocles and Homer 424 Seth L. Schein
30 Facing Up to Tragedy: Toward an Intellectual History of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche 440 Michael Lurie
31 Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles’ Antigone 462 Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett
32 Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth 477 Richard H. Armstrong
33 Sophocles with Lacan 492 Mark Buchan
Part VII Influence and Imitation 505
34 Oedipus on Oedipus: Sophocles, Seneca, Politics, and Therapy 507 Alex Dressler
35 Jean Anouilh’s Antigone 523 Jed Deppman
36 Enter Antigone, Let the Agones Begin: Sophocles’ Antigone in Nineteenth-Century Greece 538 Gonda Van Steen
37 Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus 557 Hallie Rebecca Marshall
38 Black Oedipus 572 Emily Wilson
Index Locorum 586
Index 590