Theban Plays

by Sophocles; Meineck, Peter; Woodruff, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780872205857
• ISBN10: 0872205851
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teacher of Greek Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts.

Author Biography

Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of the Aquila Theatre Company. He teaches theatre and classics at New York University as Artist in Residence at the Center for Ancient Studies and as Adjunct Professor in both the Tisch School of the Arts and the Department of Classics Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Introduction	ix
Sophocles and the Composition of the Plays	ix
Athenian Theatre and Performance	xii
Antigone	xvi
Oedipus Tyrannus	xxxv
Oedipus at Colonus	liii
Suggestions for Further Reading	lxxii
Note on the Translations	lxxv
Acknowledgments	lxxvi
Theban Royal Family Tree	lxxviii
Antigone	1	(60)
Oedipus Tyrannus	61	(64)
Oedipus at Colonus	125	(89)
Endnotes	208	(6)
Antigone	208	(3)
Oedipus Tyrannus	211	(1)
Oedipus at Colonus	212	(2)
Appendix: Hegel on Antigone	214	(3)
Selected Bibliography	217