GREEK TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles' Theban Plays.

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Author Peter J. Ahrensdorf, Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Classics at Davidson College, argues that Sophocles presents a 'sombre and humane' rationalism, through a close examination of his masterpieces ('Oedipus the Tyrant', 'Oedipus at Colonus', and 'Antigone') and analysing the prevailing views of Nietzsche, Socrates, and Aristotle, in relation to tragedy and philosophy.