TY - BOOK ID - 77894110 TI - Oedipus at Thebes : Sophocles' tragic hero and his time PY - 2018 SN - 0300147104 0585376379 9780585376370 9780300147100 9780300074239 0300074239 9780300074239 PB - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Heroes in literature. KW - Tragedy. KW - Heroes in literature KW - Tragedy KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures KW - Drama KW - Sophocles. KW - Oedipus KW - Edip KW - Edipas KW - Edipi KW - Edipo KW - Edips KW - Edipu KW - Edipus KW - Edyp KW - Ødipus KW - Oedip KW - Œdipe KW - Oidipus KW - Oidipusz KW - أوديب KW - Эдип KW - Эдып KW - Едіп KW - Едип KW - Οἰδίπους KW - Οιδιποδας KW - 오이디푸스 KW - オイディプース KW - 俄狄浦斯 KW - עדיפוס KW - אדיפוס KW - In literature. KW - Thebes (Greece) KW - Thēvai (Greece) KW - Thívai (Greece) KW - Thebes (Greece : Ancient city) KW - Thiva (Greece) KW - Thēva (Greece) KW - Tebe (Greece) KW - Theben (Greece) KW - Thebes (Greece : Extinct city) KW - Θῆβαι (Greece) KW - Thēbai (Greece) KW - Θήβα (Greece) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894110 AB - In Oedipus, Sophocles created a character who was the essence of his age, a figure of such symbolic potency that he appears to later centuries not only as a historical but as a contemporary phenomenon. This book is a study of the play, Oedipus Tyrannos, in terms of both the age which produced it and the double existence of the hero in his time and out of it. It attempts to answer the question of what Oedipus Tyrannos meant to the Greeks, and it examines its meaning for the reader of today. The author bases his study on a careful analysis of the play's vocabulary and imagery, and seeks to make clear for the reader who does not know Greek may minute and technical point of interpretation. His book is a key to the understanding of Oedipus, the man and the play. Bernard M. W. Knox is associate professor of classics at Yale. "A superb critical and textual investigation."-New York Times. ER -