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Antigone
Sophocles, PaperbackOriginal price was: $12.99.$11.04Current price is: $11.04.
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Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and
state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.
Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles’ Antigone has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This exciting
translation of the play is extremely faithful to the Greek, eminently playable, and poetically powerful.
For readers, actors, students, teachers, and theatrical directors, this affordable paperback edition of one of the greatest plays in the history of the western world provides the best combination of contemporary, powerful language, along with superb background and notes on meaning,
interpretation, and ancient beliefs, attitudes, and contexts.
finer energy and insight. Across more than two thousand years, a great dark music sounds for us.
–George Steiner, Churchill College, CambridgeProduces a language that is easy to read and easy to speak…. Enthusiastically recommended.–Library Journal [Starred Review]
Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Sophocles, Reginald Gibbons (Translator), Charles Segal (Translator)
Published: 09/01/2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195143102
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
Additional information
Weight | 0.5 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.9 × 5.2 × 0.7 in |
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