«Es klingt paradox». Hölderlin, Böhlendorff e il teatro moderno by Marco Castellari

“…A thorough, close reading of the letter is then given, focusing on both argumentative macro-structures and micro-analytical issues (2); a closing paragraph briefly looks at the implications of the case study for a better insight into Hölderlin’s late translating/rewriting and commenting of Sophocles. The main claim of the paper is that the poet’s well-known moving away from neoclassicist normative aesthetics towards an original, “paradoxical” solution of the ancient-modern-question (Überwindung des Klassizismus, Szondi) is consistently linked to the epistolary frame in which the alleged theoretical digression is inserted, i.e. …”
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"Speaking through Another Culture": Frank McGuinness’s Version of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) by María del Mar González Chacón

“…Frank McGuinness has followed this tradition but, while his rewritings of Euripides or Sophocles have been widely  discussed by scholarship, his version of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba (1991) remains an unpublished text and, consequently, has not been the object of critical attention. …”
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Antilogies in Ancient Athens: An Inventory and Appraisal by Livio Rossetti

“…In order to redress the historical neglect of the art of antilogy, this essay provides an inventory (doubtless incomplete) of some 30 antilogies composed by playwrights such as Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides, and, most importantly, ‘sophists’ such as Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus and Antiphon (in addition to a few other writers of the same period). …”
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<i>U Tingiutu. Ajax in Calabria</i>. Political Fissures in the Theatre of Scena Verticale by Angela Albanese

“…De Luca has transformed Sophocles's tragedy to illuminate the daily tragedy of gang warfare, street killings, and blood spilled in the name of honor, in the face of the cowardly inertia of those who pretend not to see. …”
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“Living Is Good, Dying Is Bad”: The Vitalist Core of Hribar’s Ethics of Sacredness by Matic Kocijančič

“… In the second half of the 1980s, Tine Hribar developed a distinctive interpretation of Sophocles’s Antigone, which he presented in 1991 in the monograph Tragična etika svetosti (The tragical ethics of sacredness). …”
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Tragedijos pėdsakai Moscho kūryboje | Traces of the Influence of Attic Tragedy on the Poetry of Moschus by Audronė Kudulytė-Kairienė

“…The traces of influence of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides on Moschus’ poetry are analysed (Aesch. …”
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Attic tradition and tragic allusion in the ithyphallic hymn for Demetrius Poliorcetes by Nelson, TJ

“…I begin with a detailed analysis of the hymn’s intertextual engagement with Euripides’ Bacchae and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus. …”

The rise, function, and fall of the σχῆμα Σοφόκλειον by Willi, A

“…The combination of the verb ἔχω with the active or middle aorist participle (e. g. ἔχω γράψας) acquires a limited degree of productivity as a periphrastic construction in classical Greek literature, notably tragedy (Sophocles, Euripides) and Herodotean prose. Traditionally, this so-called σχῆμα Σοφόκλειον has been regarded as a suppletive periphrasis stepping in for as yet unavailable synthetic perfect forms at a time when the (object-)resultative use of the perfect became increasingly widespread. …”

Jésus le Cynique? Un aspect notable du Courage de la vérité de Michel Foucault by Ákos Cseke

“…How is it possible that the late Foucault who gives an account of the will of truth-telling from Sophocles to Saint Augustine, does not mention at all Jesus? …”
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Se perdre afin de se retrouver : l'importance du passage entre l’absence et la présence dans Œdipe sur la route de Henry Bauchau by Alicja Ślusarska

“…Retracing in his novel the labyrinthine journey that leads Oedipus from the place of his abomination (Thebes) to the city of his future glory (Colonus), Henry Bauchau fills the emptiness between Sophocles’s Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. …”
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A Named Entity-Annotated Corpus of 19th Century Classical Commentaries by Matteo Romanello, Sven Najem-Meyer

“…We release a multilingual named entity (NE) corpus of 19th century commentaries to Sophocles’ Ajax. Selected commentaries are written in English, German and French, but are also replete with Latin and Greek quotes. …”
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Ancient Plays on Stage in Communist Poland by Elżbieta Olechowska

“…All Aeschylus’ plays were performed at various points during the period, four out of seven Sophocles’ tragedies – with Antigone, a special case, by far the most popular – about half of the extant Euripides’ drama, some Aristophanes, very little of Roman tragedy (Seneca) and a bit more of Roman comedy (Plautus). …”
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E tu onore di pianti Aiace avrai. La scelta di Aiace: spunti per un confronto fra modelli psicoanalitici e neurocognitivi nell'analisi del testo e dei personaggi letterari by Darwine Delvecchio

“…To clarify the differences and to justify the irreducibility of these two prospects, we chose to propose a reading of Sophocles' Ajax. The textual analysis will be 'counterpointed' by some reflections elaborated in Nietzschean's conflictual aesthetics, in particular in his Götzen-Dämmerung. …”
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Oedipus In Folktale Tradition by Hessa Said Zaid Al-Refai

“…Its fame is due primarily to Sophocles’ play ‘Oedipus the King’. The story tells about a royal couple who learn that their expected child, when reaching manhood, will kill his father and marry his mother. …”
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Mythology of Dodona by S. S. Kazarov

“…Dodona also appears in the mythological plots of the works of such Greek tragedians as Euripides and Sophocles. The myths about Dodona were reflected not only in Greek, but also in Roman authors, in particular, in Virgil. …”
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Su La città morta, Tragedia by Guaragnella, Pasquale

“…In support of his poetics, d’Annunzio cited the Sophocles models of Agamennone and Antigone. But there is more. …”
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Wizerunki równoległe Stanisława Augusta podczas inauguracji Teatru Królewskiego w Starej Oranżerii 6 września 1788 roku by Joanna Szumańska

“…The author argues that the painted plafond featuring the king as Apollo surrounded by four playwrights (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, and Molière), the curtain decoration with “The Nine Muses on the Parnassus” and the comedies and ballet performed at the opening told a coherent story about Stanisław August. …”
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«For the ages and for right now»: un’analisi dell’Antigone (2019) 229 di Merlynn Tong, con un’intervista all’autrice by Marco Zanelli

“…Abstract «For the ages and for right now»: an analysis of Antigone (2019) by Merlynn Tong, with an interview with the author The article analyzes one of the most recent adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone, written in 2019 by the young Australian author and actress, Merlynn Tong. …”
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Aorgico. Il sublime dialettico di Hölderlin by Andrea Mecacci

“…This paper attempts to probe the role played by the aorgic in the configuration of an aesthetics of the tragic by considering two precise moments: the writing, Grund zum Empedokles, which seeks to give speculative legitimacy to the unfinished tragedy on Empedocles, and the notes that accompanied the translations of Sophocles that Hölderlin published in 1804. Interpreted as the dimension of the formless, but also of the possible, the aorgic is necessarily thought by Hölderlin always next to its opposite pole, the organic, that is the dimension of the human in the broad sense (art, culture, history). …”
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Daphnis in the middle: Theocritus’ inter-generic poetics and the origins of the bucolic genre by Kampakoglou, A

“…Daphnis’ fear of ridicule by Aphrodite motivates his anger thus bringing him close to a reaction typically associated with Sophocles’ heroes. Theocritus combination of epic and tragic elements reflects discussions about the exact lines separating dramatic genres in Hellenistic times. …”