Add to ORKGIn this paper, we compare the downfall of Herodotus’ Croesus and Sophocles’ Oedipus against four central themes: ignorance and learning too late, misplaced hope, mutability of fortune, and fate and responsibility. This reveals striking affinities between the two texts, especially in the conception of happiness and the working of divine and human causation. Secondly, it shows how Herodotus and Sophocles engage their audiences by employing similar narrative techniques, notably through the use of different focalisations. Finally, it demonstrates that many of the features highlighted in Aristotle’s Poetics for the finest tragedy not only apply to Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus but also to the Croesus logos
Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three importa...
The understanding of how Greek classical drama originated implies that it is to great extent Sophocl...
In this dissertation, I discuss the revolutionary ways in which the three great Attic tragedians Aes...
In this paper, we compare the downfall of Herodotus’ Croesus and Sophocles’ Oedipus against four cen...
This dissertation examines the concept of fate in Greek antiquity from a literary perspective, looki...
Just as tragic heroes and heroines have been identified with different eras and cultures, the classi...
This thesis is examining the relationship between fate in Greek religion and fate in Greek philosoph...
Abstract: The myth of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is revolved on the three interactive perspectives of f...
Sophocles bases his posthumous Oedipus at Colonus on the famous treatment of the transformation of t...
The Oedipus myth is a very ancient one in the Greek tradition. In the Oedipus Tyrannus, Sophocles b...
The topic of the study entitled Riddles and the dual of sages in Sophocles Oedipus the King is a rid...
Sophocles’ second Oedipus-play clearly relates to the first; it holds, however, a particular place i...
One must consider the end of every affair, how it will turn out.”1 Solon’s advice to Croesus has of...
Sophocles, born in 496 B.C. in Colonus on the outskirts of Athens in Greece, is one of the main anci...
The article presents comments on the question of knowledge and blindness in Sophocles’ Oedypus Tyran...
Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three importa...
The understanding of how Greek classical drama originated implies that it is to great extent Sophocl...
In this dissertation, I discuss the revolutionary ways in which the three great Attic tragedians Aes...
In this paper, we compare the downfall of Herodotus’ Croesus and Sophocles’ Oedipus against four cen...
This dissertation examines the concept of fate in Greek antiquity from a literary perspective, looki...
Just as tragic heroes and heroines have been identified with different eras and cultures, the classi...
This thesis is examining the relationship between fate in Greek religion and fate in Greek philosoph...
Abstract: The myth of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is revolved on the three interactive perspectives of f...
Sophocles bases his posthumous Oedipus at Colonus on the famous treatment of the transformation of t...
The Oedipus myth is a very ancient one in the Greek tradition. In the Oedipus Tyrannus, Sophocles b...
The topic of the study entitled Riddles and the dual of sages in Sophocles Oedipus the King is a rid...
Sophocles’ second Oedipus-play clearly relates to the first; it holds, however, a particular place i...
One must consider the end of every affair, how it will turn out.”1 Solon’s advice to Croesus has of...
Sophocles, born in 496 B.C. in Colonus on the outskirts of Athens in Greece, is one of the main anci...
The article presents comments on the question of knowledge and blindness in Sophocles’ Oedypus Tyran...
Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three importa...
The understanding of how Greek classical drama originated implies that it is to great extent Sophocl...
In this dissertation, I discuss the revolutionary ways in which the three great Attic tragedians Aes...