Brill's Companion to Sophocles

Editor Markantonatos (Greek, U. of the Peloponnese, Greece) acknowledges his enduring admiration of Sophocles and the honor he feels in having shepherded this companion volume to publication over the past three years. He provides the introductory essay on Sophocles and his critics, which is followed by 32 contributions arranged in sections on the poet and his work (a biography, an essay on text and transmission, then essays on individual works); Sophoclean intertexuality (epic sources and models, dynamic allusion); music, language, and narrative innovations; image and performance; religion, history, and politics; status and gender; education, philosophy, irony; and the reception of Sophocles in antiquity and modern times.Indexing is by subject and also by principal Sophoclean passages. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Andreas Markantonatos, Ph.D. (2001) in Classics, University of Oxford, teaches Greek at the University of Peloponnese. He has published extensively on Greek tragedy including Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (2002) and Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World (2007). Contributors: William Blake Tyrrell, Guido Avezzu, Patrick Finglass, Emma Griffiths, Josh Beer, David Carter, Bruce Heiden, Poulcheria Kyriakou, Jon Hesk, Alan Sommerstein, Bernd Seidensticker, John Davidson, Francis Dunn, Timothy Power, Rachel Kitzinger, Luigi Battezzato, Jocelyn Penny Small, Nancy Worman, Andreas Markantonatos, Rush Rehm, Jon Mikalson, Sarah Ferrario, Kurt Raaflaub, Judith Mossman, Bernhard Zimmermann, Justina Gregory, Emily Wilson, Michael Lloyd, Matthew Wright, Michael J. Anderson, Michael Walton, and Marianne McDonald.