Oedipus at Colonus

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Oedipus at Colonus is written by Andreas Markantonatos and published by Walter de Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110920484 (ISBN 10) and 9783110920482 (ISBN 13).

This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices. The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.