BRILL'S COMPANION TO THE RECEPTION OF SOPHOCLES

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Publisher's original blue cloth with black titles printed to the upper board and spine, with a colour illustration by Michael Merk printed to the upper board. With one colour plate (on page 57). A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with a touch of rubbing to the head of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.

'[A] comprehensive account of the influence, reception and appropriation of all extant Sophoclean plays, as well as the fragmentary Satyr play The Trackers, from Antiquity to Modernity, across cultures and civilizations, encompassing multiple perspectives and within a broad range of cultural trends and manifestations: literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. [...] Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern, which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition' (publisher's blurb).