Prophesying Tragedy

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Prophesying Tragedy is written by Rebecca Weld Bushnell and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501745581 (ISBN 10) and 9781501745584 (ISBN 13).

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.