Antigone

by Sophocles, David Mulroy (Translator)

Overview

Sophocles’ Antigone ranks with his Oedipus Rex as one of world literature’s most compelling dramas. The action is taut, and the characters embody universal tensions: the conflict of youth with age, male with female, the state with the family. Plot and character come wrapped in exquisite language. Antagonists trade polished speeches, sardonic jibes and epigrammatic truisms and break into song at the height of passion.
    David Mulroy’s translation of Antigone faithfully reproduces the literal meaning of Sophocles’ words while also reflecting his verbal pyrotechnics. Using fluid iambic pentameters for the spoken passages and rhyming stanzas for the songs, it is true to the letter and the spirit of the great Greek original.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299290849
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	02/08/2013
Series:	Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Edition description:	1
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)

About the Author

Sophocles (ca. 497/6-407/6 BCE) was the most acclaimed dramatist of his era, winning more than twenty festival competitions in ancient Athens. He is believed to have written 123 plays, but only seven have survived in complete form. David Mulroy is professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has translated The Complete Poetry of Catullus and Oedipus Rex, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
 
Antigone 1
 
Appendix 1. Guide to Pronunciation
Appendix 2. Synopses of the Surviving Accounts of Oedipus and His Family
Suggestions for Further Reading

Editorial Reviews

This version is far superior to any translation of the Antigone known to me. For the modern reader, the Antigone is now a rich and rewarding play in English.”—Robert J. Rabel, author of Plot and Point of View in the “Iliad”

From the Publisher

A lucid, well-paced translation, natural enough sounding in the dialogue to make a good acting version.

Joseph Russo