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David Mulroyrsquo;s brilliant verse translation ofOedipus Rexrecaptures the aesthetic power of Sophoclesrsquo; masterpiece while also achieving a highly accurate translation in clear, contemporary English.

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Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. It dramatizes the mysterious death of Oedipus, by which he is transformed into an immortal hero protecting Athens. This was Sophocles' final play, written in his mid-eighties and produced posthumously. Translator David Mulroy's introduction and notes deepen the reader's understanding of Oedipus' character and the real political tumult that was shaking Athens at the time that Sophocles wrote the play. Oedipus at Colonus is at once a complex study of a tragic character, an indictment of Athenian democracy, and a subtle endorsement of hope for personal immortality. As in his previous translations of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, Mulroy combines scrupulous scholarship and textual accuracy with a fresh poetic style. He uses iambic pentameter for spoken passages and short rhymed stanzas for choral songs, resulting in a text that is accessible and fun to read and perform.

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The ancient scholia to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus shed light on Alexandrian ways of engaging with this play, and are richer than those to the other Sophoclean plays. The last editor, Vittorio de Marco (1952), established a better text of these scholia than his predecessors, in as much as he had a fuller knowledge of their manuscript tradition and a better understanding of their stratified nature. Still, his work is marred by a number of inaccuracies, omissions and methodological shortcomings. The new edition by Georgios Xenis improves on de Marco's work by a careful examination of all the sources of the text and the conjectures proposed by scholars, and by relying on a clearly defined methodological framework. In this edition the scholia to the Oedipus at Colonus are restored in a textual state that is arguably the earliest we can recover, and is free of contradictions, unacceptable repetitions, and hybridisation or blending of elements from different versions. The critical text is accompanied by a detailed apparatus criticus, and is contextualised in its ancient scholarly tradition by means of a rich array of passages drawn from comparable sources. Extensive indices are provided at the end of the volume. The edition will be an invaluable resource for those engaged in the interpretation of Sophocles' tragedies and, in particular, of the Oedipus at Colonus, and will be of interest to classicists working on ancient literary criticism and ancient scholarship.

Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek drama (Tragedy). --- History and criticism. --- Sophocles. --- Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles). --- Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles) --- Critical edition. --- Kritische Edition. --- Oedipus. --- Sophokles. --- Ödipus. --- Sophocles --- Sophocle --- Sófocles --- Sofoklis --- Sofokl --- Sūfūklīs --- Sofokles --- Sūtmūklīs --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofokŭl --- סופוקלס --- سوفوكليس --- Σοφοκλῆς --- Sophoclis --- Oedipus Coloneus (Sophocles) --- Edipo a Colono (Sophocles) --- Aedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)

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By imaginatively recreating the play's original staging and debunking the interpretations of various critics, including Aristotle, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, E.R. Dodds, Frederick Ahl, and John Peradotto, Griffith shows that Apollo is a constant, powerful presence throughout the play. He contends that although we can sympathize with Oedipus because of his sufferings, he is still morally responsible for murdering his father and sleeping with his mother. Apollo is therefore not indifferent and his actions are not unjust. Griffith focuses on Apollo's commandment "know thyself," a commandment Oedipus belatedly and tragically fulfils, to stress both the need for self-understanding in the study of ancient literature and the usefulness of ancient literature in achieving self-understanding.

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Some literary scholars view myth criticism as passe; an approach to literature that enjoyed a heyday in the l950s and 1960s before being replaced by approaches that are considered to be more theoretically sophisticated and satisfying, such as feminism, new historicism, and deconstruction. Moddelmog argues that there are many good reasons not to cast out myth criticism from the community of critical approaches. Most obvious among them is that myth has attracted many writers of this century -- from James Joyce to Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf to Flannery OʹConnor, Thomas Mann to Alain Robbe-Grillet, William Faulkner to Alberto Moravia -- and that to ignore myth is to dismiss an essential part of their work. Moddelmog suggests that by reconstruing the relationship between myth and literature, we will find that mythic approaches are frequently not only necessary but also highly stimulating, engaging readers in many varieties of questions, quests, and conclusions. -- Publisher description.

Fiction --- Reader-response criticism. --- Mythology --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Reader-response criticism --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Myths --- Legends --- Religion --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- Myth --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- History and criticism. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects --- Oedipus --- Edip --- Edipas --- Edipi --- Edipo --- Edips --- Edipu --- Edipus --- Edyp --- Ødipus --- Oedip --- Œdipe --- Oidipus --- Oidipusz --- أوديب --- Эдип --- Эдып --- Едіп --- Едип --- Οἰδίπους --- Οιδιποδας --- 오이디푸스 --- オイディプース --- 俄狄浦斯 --- עדיפוס --- אדיפוס --- In literature. --- Mythology.