Select Bibliography

This Bibliography is mainly restricted to accessible works in English, particularly those which have been found most helpful.

Greek Tragedy in General

P. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1997).

H. Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (Princeton, 2001).

J. Gregory (ed.), A Companion to Greek Tragedy (Maldon, MA, 2005).

E. Hall, Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun (Oxford, 2010).

H. Roisman (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (London, 2013).

R. Rutherford, Greek Tragic Style (Cambridge, 2012).

R. Scodel, An Introduction to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010).

O. Taplin, Greek Tragedy in Action (London, 1978).

Sophocles

texts

R. Dawe (Teubner, Leipzig, 1975; 3rd edn, 1996).

H. Lloyd-Jones and N. Wilson (Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford, 1990).

H. Lloyd-Jones (Loeb, Cambridge, MA, 1994).

books which include chapters on individual plays

F. Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles (Cambridge, 2000).

B. Knox, The Heroic Temper (Berkeley, 1964).

A. Markantonatos (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Sophocles (Leiden, 2011).

S. Nooter, When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge, 2012).

K. Ormand (ed.), A Companion to Sophocles (Maldon, MA, 2012).

K. Reinhardt, Sophokles (3rd edn, Frankfurt, 1947; English tr. Oxford, 1979).

D. Seale, Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles (Chicago, 1982).

C. Segal, Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (Cambridge, MA, 1981).

R. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1980).

antigone

Commentaries

R. Jebb (Cambridge 1900; reissued Bristol, 2004).

A. Brown (Warminster, 1987).

M. Griffith (Cambridge, 1999).

Articles etc.

D. Cairns, Sophocles: Antigone (London, 2016).

H. Foley, ‘Tragedy and Democratic Ideology: The Case of Sophocles’ Antigone’, in B. Goff (ed.), History, Tragedy, Theory (Austin, TX, 1995), 131–50.

S. Goldhill, ‘Antigone and the Politics of Sisterhood’, in S. Goldhill (ed.), Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy (Oxford, 2012), 231–48.

C. Sourvinou-Inwood, ‘Assumptions and the Creation of Meaning’, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, 109 (1989), 131–48.

Reception

G. Steiner, Antigones (Oxford, 1984).

E. Mee and H. Foley (eds), Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage (Oxford, 2011).

S. Wilmer and A. Žukausaitė (eds), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism (Oxford, 2010).

deianeira (trachinian women)

Commentaries

R. Jebb (Cambridge, 1892; reissued Bristol, 2004).

P. Easterling (Cambridge, 1982).

Articles etc.

L. Bowman, ‘Prophecy and Authority in the Trachiniae’, in American Journal of Philology, 120 (1999), 335–50.

P. Holt, ‘The End of the Trachiniae and the Fate of Herakles’, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, 109 (1989), 69–80.

R. Kane, ‘The Structure of Sophocles’ Trachiniae’, in Phoenix, 42 (1988), 198–211.

B. Levett, Sophocles: Women of Trachis (London, 2004).

electra

Commentaries

R. Jebb (Cambridge, 1894; reissued Bristol, 2004).

J. March (Warminster, 2001).

P. Finglass (Cambridge, 2007).

Articles etc.

J. Billings, ‘Orestes’ Urn in Word and Action’, in M. Telò and M. Mueller (eds.), The Materialities of Greek Tragedy (London, 2018), 49–62.

R. Kitzinger, ‘Why Mourning Becomes Electra’, in Classical Antiquity 10 (1991), 298–327.

M. Lloyd, Sophocles: Electra (London, 2005).

L. MacLeod, Dolos and Dikê in Sophocles’ Electra (Leiden 2001).