Prophesying Tragedy
Auteur: Rebecca Weld Bushnell
Nombre de pages: 168 pages
ISBN: 1501745581, 9781501745584
Edition: Cornell University Press
Date de publication: Cornell University Press
Description: Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens.