ISBN10: 0195128192, ISBN13: 9780195128192, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

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Oxford University Press, USA, Date: 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1999. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 0195128192 9780195128192 [US]

Oxford University Press, USA, Date: 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1999. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 0195128192 9780195128192 [US]

ISBN10: 0195128192, ISBN13: 9780195128192, [publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.] Softcover 112 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. "In this new translation, Sophocles early masterpiece comes boldly to life. In Greek tradition, Aias is the outmoded warrior whom time passes by. In Sophocles play, he becomes the man who moves resolutely beyond time. Most previous versions and interpretations have equivocated over Sophocles bold vision. This version attempts to translate precisely that transformation of the hero from the bygone figure to the man who stops time. In Homer, Aias is the immovable bulwark of the Achaians, second only to Achilles in battle prowess and size. But when Achilles dies, his armor is given to the wily Odysseus, not Aias. Shamed, and driven to madness, Aias dies a dishonorable death by suicide. He becomes, in death, the symbol of greatness lost; his death signals the end of a heroic age; in the visual arts, draped hideously over his huge sword, he becomes a momento mori. Sophocles plays upon his audiences expectation of all this. In the first scene Aias appears as the Homeric warrior turned mad butcher. It is harder to imagine a more degraded image of the hero. But with each scene, Aias moves from darkness into greater and greater light, and speaks, contrary to the audiences expectations, more like a Heraclitean philosopher of the worlds flux than the laconic figure known from ...
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ISBN10: 0195128192, ISBN13: 9780195128192, [publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.] Softcover 112 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. "In this new translation, Sophocles early masterpiece comes boldly to life. In Greek tradition, Aias is the outmoded warrior whom time passes by. In Sophocles play, he becomes the man who moves resolutely beyond time. Most previous versions and interpretations have equivocated over Sophocles bold vision. This version attempts to translate precisely that transformation of the hero from the bygone figure to the man who stops time. In Homer, Aias is the immovable bulwark of the Achaians, second only to Achilles in battle prowess and size. But when Achilles dies, his armor is given to the wily Odysseus, not Aias. Shamed, and driven to madness, Aias dies a dishonorable death by suicide. He becomes, in death, the symbol of greatness lost; his death signals the end of a heroic age; in the visual arts, draped hideously over his huge sword, he becomes a momento mori. Sophocles plays upon his audiences expectation of all this. In the first scene Aias appears as the Homeric warrior turned mad butcher. It is harder to imagine a more degraded image of the hero. But with each scene, Aias moves from darkness into greater and greater light, and speaks, contrary to the audiences expectations, more like a Heraclitean philosopher of the worlds flux than the laconic figure known from ...
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Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 1999. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 112 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.25 inches. 1999. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0195128192 9780195128192 [GB]

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