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The present study aims at re-analyzing two specific aspects of Pasolini’s cinematic staging of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex that seem to have received little attention.
Rosanna Lauriola
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Speaking Truth to Power: Understanding the Role of Political Theater in Russia
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 149-156, April 2026.
Katherine A. New
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L’histoire de la tragédie dans les épigrammes funéraires de Dioscoride sur les poètes
This paper aims to discuss Dioscorides’ cycle of epigrams about the dramatic poets, focusing on his three poems about the tragic poets. Through the three funerary epigrams on Thespis (20 GP), Aeschylus (21 GP) and Sophocles (22 GP), the epigrammatist ...
Fernando Rodrigues
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«Gemeinsamschwesterliches! O Ismenes Haupt!». Note sull’esordio dell’«Antigone» di Hölderlin
In his translation of Antigone Hölderlin certainly used the ancient scholia, which he read at the margins of the edition he had available (the so called Brubachiana, Frankfurt 1544), or in another source (perhaps the commentary on the Theban plays of ...
Sotera Fornaro
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Tragedy and otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, psychoanalysis [PDF]
The thesis is concerned with the relationship between psychoanalysis and tragedy, and the way in which psychoanalysis has structured its theory by reference to models from tragic drama - in particular, those of Sophocles and Shakespeare. It engages with
Ray, Nicholas
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Sophocles Antigone and other tragedies
"Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers ...
Taplin, Oliver 1943- +2 more
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Sophocles’ Ajax and the Polis [PDF]
Abstract This article examines the two mentions of the polis in Sophocles’ Ajax, arguing that to understand the political aspects of this and other tragedies, we need to take into account the diverse composition of their audiences.
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Antigone’s Contests: Pasts and Presents in Scholarship and Performance, ancient and modern
In modern times, the figure of Antigone has become an emblem in the struggle for liberty from oppression. It provides a fitting focus for a conference that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the carnation revolution in Portugal.
Lorna Hardwick
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ῥοπὴ βίου μοι: THE PASSIVE ROUTE TO APOTHEOSIS IN SOPHOCLES' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
This thesis seeks to demonstrate the necessary role of passivity in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus as a catalyst of Oedipus’ restoration to community, of his ethical innocence and of the renewed personal agency that culminates in his apotheosis.
Watson, Tamara Elizabeth James
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