Senecas Oedipus: Signed (3 results)

Language: English
Published by Leeds, 2003
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Add to basketReprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 1-19. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author. - Author's name underlined on cover, slightly bumped, otherwise very good and clean. - ABSTRACT: This paper examines the different treatments of Teiresias in Sophocles' and Seneca's Oedipus the King. Sophocles fashions his Teiresias as a grumpy curmudgeon, gallingly reluctant to share his knowledge, as is expected of a seer. His unseerlike behavior serves two key functions. On the dramatic plane, it creates and sustains the dramatic conflict in a plot in which nothing much happens until the very end. Thematically, it highlights the limitations of human knowledge, which cannot alleviate suffering in a world in which destiny is in the hands of the gods. Seneca's Teiresias is a much reduced figure, without a 'character', in the sense of a consistent set of traits or behaviors. Rather he appears in three unconnected depictions, in each of which he is differently presented. In his main depiction, in the divination scene, he is a mild-mannered, unimposing seer, eager to do his job but lacking the full knowledge attributed to his Sophoclean precursor. His function is to serve as master of the rite, who directs the divination and makes it dramatically compelling. In both plays, Teiresias may be seen as a representative of the gods. Sophocles' depiction highlights and protests the cruelty of the gods, Seneca's projects a more resigned and accepting attitude. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. …

Language: German
Published by Stuttgart: Ernst Klett, 1968
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Add to basketCondition: Gut. S. 23-49. Mit Widmung des Verfassers. - Aus dem Nachlass des Altphilologen Ernst Vogt, Verantw. Schriftltr. der Zeitschriften Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (1959-1967) und Gnomon (1970-1999, ab 1975 Mitherausgeber). - Wenige typogr. Korr., sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Aus dem Text: Das Verständnis der Tragödien des Philosophen Seneca ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten durch zahlreiche Arbeiten entscheidend gefördert worden1. Trotzdem sind wir noch weit davon entfernt, uns ein präzises Bild von der Struktur der einzelnen Dramen machen zu können2. Dies gilt auch für Senecas Oedipustragödie3, deren Einheit erst kürzlich wieder in Frage gestellt worden ist. Der vorliegende Beitrag soll einer der umstrittensten Szenen dieses Werkes, der Prologszene, gelten. Denn von ihr ist behauptet worden, daß sie weder in sich selbst schlüssig sei noch mit dem Verlauf des Dramas übereinstimme4. Zu fragen ist also sowohl nach dem Aufbau dieser Szene wie nach ihrer Stellung im Gesamtgefüge des Dramas. Doch empfiehlt es sich, daß wir uns zunächst einen Überblick über die Thematik und den Aufbau des Werkes verschaffen. In ihm wird vorerst manches apodiktisch behauptet werden müssen, wofür der beweis später zu erbringen sein wird. - Wikipedia: Willy Schetter (* 1. April 1928 in Essen; + 19. November 1992 in Bonn) war ein deutscher Altphilologe, der als Professor in Mainz (1965-1972) und Bonn (1972-1992) wirkte. Sein hauptsächliches Fach war die Latinistik. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Sonderdruck, klammergeheftet in Papiereinband. …
More imagesPublished by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1972
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition, clothbound issue. Adapted by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by Reginald Pollock. Introduction by Peter Brook. Octavo. 90 [1] pp. Topedge foxed else fine in a modestly toned, very good or better dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine with a bit of nicking at the base and a stray ink mark near the crown. Inscribed on the title page by illustrator Reginald Pollock, with a drawing of a man flying a kite: "Ocracoke Sept. 75. to (Doc) Robin- Who has no doubt known about all this for some time. Reginald (& Kerstin).".…