Companion to Sophocles

Kirk Ormand is Associate Professor of Classics at Oberlin.  He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999) and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2008), as well as articles on Hesiod, Euripides, Lucan, Ovid, and the Greek Novel.

• List of Illustrations xList of Abbreviations xiNotes on Contributors xvAcknowledgments xx1 Introduction 1Kirk OrmandPart I Text and Author 72 The Textual Transmission of Sophocles’ Dramas 9P. J. Finglass3 Sophocles’ Biography 25Ruth Scodel4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 38John DavidsonPart II The Plays and the Fragments 535 Antigone 55André Lardinois6 Polyphonic Ajax 69Peter Burian7 Oedipus Tyrannus 84Vayos Liapis8 Electra 98Francis Dunn9 The Divided Worlds of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis 111Margaret Rachel Kitzinger10 The Philoctetes of Sophocles 126Paul Woodruff11 Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy 141Thomas Van Nortwick12 Sophocles’ Ichneutae or How to Write a Satyr Play 155Willeon Slenders13 Sophoclean Fragments 169Carolin HahnemannPart III Sophoclean Techniques 18514 Sophocles Didaskalos 187C. W. Marshall15 Poetic Speakers in Sophocles 204Sarah H. Nooter16 Sophocles’ Choruses 220Sheila Murnaghan17 Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles 236Casey DuéPart IV Sophocles and Fifth-Century Political, Religious, and Intellectual Thought 25118 Sophocles and Class 253 Peter W. Rose19 Sophocles and Contemporary Politics 270Robin Osborne20 Sophocles and Athenian Law 287Edward M. Harris21 The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles’ Theban Plays 301Edith Hall22 Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought 316Robin Mitchell-Boyask23 Sophocles and Hero Cult 331Bruno CurriePart V Gender and Sexuality 34924 Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles 351Nancy Worman25 Staging Mothers in Sophocles’ Electra and Oedipus the King 367Laura McClure26 Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social History 381Cynthia Patterson27 Masculinity and Freedom in Sophocles 395Bruce M. KingPart VI Historical Interpretations 40928 Aristotle on Sophocles 411John T. Kirby29 Sophocles and Homer 424Seth L. Schein30 Facing Up to Tragedy: Toward an Intellectual History of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche 440Michael Lurie31 Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles’ Antigone 462Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett32 Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth 477Richard H. Armstrong33 Sophocles with Lacan 492Mark BuchanPart VII Influence and Imitation 50534 Oedipus on Oedipus: Sophocles, Seneca, Politics, and Therapy 507Alex Dressler35 Jean Anouilh’s Antigone 523Jed Deppman36 Enter Antigone, Let the Agones Begin: Sophocles’ Antigone in Nineteenth-Century Greece 538Gonda Van Steen37 Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus 557Hallie Rebecca Marshall38 Black Oedipus 572Emily WilsonIndex Locorum 586Index 590

“This volume will indeed serve as an indispensable reference point for the future study of Sophocles.”  (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 January 2013)“Although the book is scholarly and packed with information, it is accessible to nonspecialists.  Summing Up: Highly recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (Choice, 1 November 2012)