Antigone

by Sophocles; Gibbons, Reginald; Segal, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195143102
• ISBN10: 0195143108
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances articulate issues that have echoed down through the centuries.

Author Biography

Reginald Gibbons is the author of nine volumes of poems, including Sparrow: New and Selected Poems, It's Time and Fern-Texts. With Charles Segal he has also translated Euripides' Bakkhai. He teaches at Northwestern University. The late Charles Segal was Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His many books include Sophocles' Tragic World, Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles, and Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
On the Translation	p. 37
Antigone	p. 51
Notes on the Text	p. 117
Appendices
The Date of Antigone	p. 183
The Myth of Antigone, to the End of the Fifth Century BCE	p. 184
The Transmission of the Text	p. 187
Glossary	p. 189
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 197
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