“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, September 17, 2012

Classics Scholarship

Does anyone out there have a favorite writer on Sophocles? Let me know.

I'm struck by the creativity of current Greek scholarship.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Read Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim which was rather interesting reworking of the incest taboo and kinship angle using Lacan, Irigaray, and Hegel...

Of course my all time fav is still George Steiner's rendition in Antigones...

ulrich said...

oh no, read the recent William Marx «Le Tombeau d´Oedipe - Pour une tragédie sans tragique». Bell´s ringing no? And from a true literary scholar, an erudite by the way

le résumé...
http://leseditionsdeminuit.fr/f/index.php?sp=liv&livre_id=2714