A Companion to Sophocles presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading scholars that address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. Initial essays introduce Sophocles’ extant tragedies, as well as fragments of his lost plays including the Ichneutae. A Companion to Sophocles presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading scholars that address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. Initial essays introduce Sophocles extant tragedies, as well as fragments of his lost plays including the Ichneutae. List of Illustrations x List of Abbreviations xi Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgments xx 1 Introduction 1Kirk Ormand PART I Text and Author 7 2 The Textual Transmission of Sophocles Dramas 9P. J. Finglass 3 Sophocles Biography 25Ruth Scodel 4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides 38John Davidson Part II The Plays and the Fragments 53 5 Antigone 55André Lardinois 6 Polyphonic Ajax 69Peter Burian 7 Oedipus Tyrannus 84Vayos Liapis 8 Electra 98Francis Dunn 9 The Divided Worlds of Sophocles Women of Trachis 111Margaret Rachel Kitzinger 10 The Philoctetes of Sophocles 126Paul Woodruff 11 Last Things: Oedipus at Colonus and the End of Tragedy 141Thomas Van Nortwick 12 Sophocles Ichneutae or How to Write a Satyr Play 155Willeon Slenders 13 Sophoclean Fragments 169Carolin Hahnemann Part III Sophoclean Techniques 185 14 Sophocles Didaskalos 187C. W. Marshall 15 Poetic Speakers in Sophocles 204Sarah H. Nooter 16 Sophocles Choruses 220Sheila Murnaghan 17 Lament as Speech Act in Sophocles 236Casey Dué Part IV Sophocles and Fifth-Century Political, Religious, and Intellectual Thought 251 18 Sophocles and Class 253Peter W. Rose 19 Sophocles and Contemporary Politics 270Robin Osborne 20 Sophocles and Athenian Law 287Edward M. Harris 21 The Necessity and Limits of Deliberation in Sophocles Theban Plays 301Edith Hall 22 Heroic Pharmacology: Sophocles and the Metaphors of Greek Medical Thought 316Robin Mitchell-Boyask 23 Sophocles and Hero Cult 331Bruno Currie Part V Gender and Sexuality 349 24 Cutting to the Bone: Recalcitrant Bodies in Sophocles 351Nancy Worman 25 Staging Mothers in Sophocles Electra and Oedipus the King 367Laura McClure 26 Marriage in Sophocles: A Problem for Social History 381Cynthia Patterson 27 Masculinity and Freedom in Sophocles 395Bruce M. King Part VI Historical Interpretations 409 28 Aristotle on Sophocles 411John T. Kirby 29 Sophocles and Homer 424Seth L. Schein 30 Facing Up to Tragedy: Toward an Intellectual History of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche 440Michael Lurie 31 Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles Antigone 462Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett 32 Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth 477Richard H. Armstrong 33 Sophocles with Lacan 492Mark Buchan Part VII Influence and Imitation 505 34 Oedipus on Oedipus: Sophocles, Seneca, Politics, and Therapy 507Alex Dressler 35 Jean Anouilh s Antigone 523Jed Deppman 36 Enter Antigone, Let the Agones Begin: Sophocles Antigone in Nineteenth-Century Greece 538Gonda Van Steen 37 Tony Harrison s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus 557Hallie Rebecca Marshall 38 Black Oedipus 572Emily Wilson Index Locorum 586 Index 590