Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter C
2. Contents vii
3. Part I. Sophocles the Athenian
4. Prelude: A Snapshot of Sophocles 3
5. Chapter I. The Young Sophocles 5
6. Chapter II. Sophocles the Politician 14
7. Chapter III. Sophocles the Religious Man 60
8. Chapter IV. Sophocles and Dionysus: The Theatrical Career 76
9. Chapter V. Happy Sophocles 94
10. Part II. Sophocles the Tragic Poet
11. Prelude: A Tragic Disaster 111
12. Chapter VI. The Mythic Imagination 113
13. Chapter VII. Space and Spectacle 178
14. Chapter VIII. Time and Action 241
15. Chapter IX. The Characters 293
16. Chapter X. Humans and the Gods 365
17. Chapter XI. Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding 406
18. Deus ex Machina: Time and Nature 455
19. Appendix I: Presentation of Sophocles’ Extant Tragedies 471
20. Appendix II: Sophocles, Fragments: List and Presentation of the Plays Extant in the Form of Fragments 547
21. Appendix III: The Identification of Sophocles as a Hellenotamias 614
22. Appendix IV: Dio Chrysostom, Discourse 52: On Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; or, the Bow of Philoctetes 618
23. Appendix V 623
24. Notes 627
25. Bibliographical Guide 781
26. List of Translations Used in the English Edition 823
27. General Index 825
28. Index Locorum 849