Antigone

by Sophocles, Owen McCafferty (Adapted by)

Overview

A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

The war has ended, but with peace comes conflict. Antigone's brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Should Antigone obey Creon, or must she follow her conscience and lay her beloved brother to rest?

'Urgent... Barely contained physical aggression... brilliantly immediate' Guardian

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780013404
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	10/14/2014
Series:	NHB Modern Plays
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
Lexile:	1090L (what's this?)
File size:	187 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Sophocles (ca. 495-405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist. 


Elizabeth Wyckoff (1915-1994) was a professor of classics at Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke. Among her translations are the versions of Sophocles’s Antigone and Euripides’s The Phoenician Women included in Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies. 


Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.


Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

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

Joseph Russo

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”

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