A Companion to Sophocles

List of Illustrations x    List of Abbreviations xi     Notes on Contributors xv     Acknowledgments xx     1 Introduction 1 Kirk Ormand     PART I Text and Author 7     2 The Textual Transmission of Sophocles    Dramas 9 P. J. Finglass     3 Sophocles    Biography 25 Ruth Scodel     4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 38 John Davidson     Part II The Plays and the Fragments 53     5 Antigone 55 Andre Lardinois     6 Polyphonic Ajax 69 Peter Burian     7 Oedipus Tyrannus 84 Vayos Liapis     8 Electra 98 Francis Dunn     9 The Divided Worlds of Sophocles    Women of Trachis 111 Margaret Rachel Kitzinger     10 The Philoctetes of Sophocles 126 Paul Woodruff     11 Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy 141 Thomas Van Nortwick     12 Sophocles    Ichneutae or How to Write a Satyr Play 155 Willeon Slenders     13 Sophoclean Fragments 169 Carolin Hahnemann     Part III Sophoclean Techniques 185     14 Sophocles Didaskalos 187 C. W. Marshall     15 Poetic Speakers in Sophocles 204 Sarah H. Nooter     16 Sophocles    Choruses 220 Sheila Murnaghan     17 Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles 236 Casey Due     Part IV Sophocles and Fifth-Century Political, Religious, and Intellectual Thought 251     18 Sophocles and Class 253 Peter W. Rose     19 Sophocles and Contemporary Politics 270 Robin Osborne     20 Sophocles and Athenian Law 287 Edward M. Harris     21 The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles    Theban Plays 301 Edith Hall     22 Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought 316 Robin Mitchell-Boyask     23 Sophocles and Hero Cult 331 Bruno Currie     Part V Gender and Sexuality 349     24 Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles 351 Nancy Worman     25 Staging Mothers in Sophocles    Electra and Oedipus the King 367 Laura McClure     26 Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social History 381 Cynthia Patterson     27 Masculinity and Freedom in Sophocles 395 Bruce M. King     Part VI Historical Interpretations 409     28 Aristotle on Sophocles 411 John T. Kirby     29 Sophocles and Homer 424 Seth L. Schein     30 Facing Up to Tragedy: Toward an Intellectual History of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche 440 Michael Lurie     31 Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles    Antigone 462 Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett     32 Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth 477 Richard H. Armstrong     33 Sophocles with Lacan 492 Mark Buchan     Part VII Influence and Imitation 505     34 Oedipus on Oedipus: Sophocles, Seneca, Politics, and Therapy 507 Alex Dressler     35 Jean Anouilh   s Antigone 523 Jed Deppman     36 Enter Antigone, Let the Agones Begin: Sophocles    Antigone in Nineteenth-Century Greece 538 Gonda Van Steen     37 Tony Harrison   s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus 557 Hallie Rebecca Marshall     38 Black Oedipus 572 Emily Wilson     Index Locorum 586     Index 590