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Sophocles and Alcibiades - Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature (Paperback)
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Sophocles and Alcibiades - Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature (Paperback)
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Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the
Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the
heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or
individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers
challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and
extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to
Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of
his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual
but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that
Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that
classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or
sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of
contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature,
hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the
popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about
Sophocles by discussing other authors - Thucydides, Plato and
Euripides - in whom he also demonstrates a body of allusions to
Alcibiades and others.
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