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Sophocles’ Nausicaa: A lost play, Odysseus’ tales, and a tragic mystery.
Sophocles' Nausicaa
$300.16
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128 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2025
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Summary
Odysseus meeting Princess Nausicaa on the Phaeacian seashore is the core of the 6th book of Homer’s Odyssey. This episode seems to have inspired some theatrical adaptations, Sophocles’ Nausicaa (for which a secondary title, The Washerwomen, comes into question) possibly being the first one of them. Unfortunately, as so often happens studying Sophocles’ lost works, very little of this play is known. Primarily from Athenaeus we infer that Nausicaa was an early play of Sophocles, presum…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9788891335555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 889133555X |
| Author: | Leonardo Bononcini |
| Publisher: | L'Erma Di Bretschneider |
| Imprint: | L'Erma Di Bretschneider |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 417g |
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