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Illustrates how the theatre and Sophoclean tragedy, in particular, was crucial to the life and politics of the time.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Introduction Tragedy, Athens and the Greek Cultural Mosaic Sophocles: Dramatic Beginnings Sophocles' Theatre Ajax Antigone Trachiniae Oedipus Rex Electra Philoctetes Oedipus at Colonus Conclusion Chronology Select Bibliography

About the Author

JOSH BEER is Associate Professor of Classics in the College of Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He represented Carleton University on the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans from 1983-1989, serving as Secretary Treasurer from 1987-1989.

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?Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice

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