Theatre in Crisis: Sophocles' Reconstruction of Genre and Politics in Philoctetes |
Contents
The Literary Problems and Historical Context | 3 |
Romance Complications | 34 |
Comic Prototypes | 51 |
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Achilles action Aeschylus Alcibiades Apollo apotheosis archaic argument aristocratic Aristophanes Asclepius Athenian Athenian tragedy Athens audience become birds cave character chorus Chryse civilized comedy compassion conflict contemporary context conventional cult culture hero Cyclops daemonic death deception deus ex machina disease drama earlier enemies epic erōs erotic Euripidean Euripides figure force frustrated genre Greek Hellespont Heracles hero's heroic nature Hippolytus historical Homeric human Ichneutai Iliad island isolation landscape late fifth century Lemnian Lemnos literary loctetes magical merchant military moral motif myth mythic narrative Neop Neoptolemus noble nymphs Odys Odysseus Oedipus Oedipus the King oligarchic Orestes perception Philoc Philoctetes physical play's plot polis political problem Prometheus provides reality realm rebirth restoration reversal role romance satyr play savage scene of suffering seems setting social society Sophistic Sophoclean Sophocles story survival symbolic tetes theft Thucydides tion tolemus traditional tragic Trojan Trojan War Troy victory villainous warrior wound