Antigone
One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, "Antigone" continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering.
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Antigone
One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, "Antigone" continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering.
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Antigone

Antigone

by Sophocles
Antigone

Antigone

by Sophocles

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Overview

One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, "Antigone" continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486113692
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 02/06/2012
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Plays
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 64
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 14 - 18 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
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