Antigone

by Sophocles, Elizabeth Wyckoff (Translator), Glenn W. Most (Introduction), Mark Griffith (Introduction)

Overview

A stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Antigone taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies.
 
Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press’s Complete Greek Tragedies series, this stand-alone edition of Elizabeth Wyckoff’s elegant rendition of Antigone reminds readers why it endures as one of the most widely read and admired of Sophocles’s plays. Though the story unfolds in the aftermath of Oedipus the King, Antigone was the first of the Theban Plays written by Sophocles.
 
Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most’s introduction to the story of one woman’s brave resistance in the face of unfathomable loss provides essential information about the play’s first production, plot, and reception in antiquity.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226844657
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	09/19/2025
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)

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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