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Aias: A New Translation by Sophocles
Category: Plays & Scripts
With the Trojan War won, the Greeks' last great hero, Arias, has suddenly become obsolete. The world is changing - as he witnesses when the armor of his fallen cousin Achilles is awarded not to him but to his crafty comrade Odysseus. When Aias swears vengeance, the goddess Athena clouds his mind with ma ...Show more
All That You've Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies: Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, and Women of Trachis & Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound by Bryan Doerries (Translator); Sophocles; Aeschylus
Category: Classic Fiction
These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medic ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions Ser.
In Antigone, Sophocles writes of the hardship befalling the daughter of Oedipus, the star of three previous tragedies by the master of the form. The story centers on her brother's death and her quest to obtain an honorable burial for him. Antigone breaks the King's law forbidding the burial of her broth ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honoured and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied t ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Drama Classics S.
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 ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"I would call the register 'restrained colloquial'. The language ranges between the straightforward and the genuinely poetic, its dominant characteristic being freshness. This is not the usual dull translationese, which reads as if the original were not in a language people once spoke and wrote and crea ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles (adapted by Jane Montgomery Griffiths)
Category: Film & Tv
Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest and most famous of all works of Greek literature, and it is often the play that is read first, whether in Greek or in translation, by those who are beginning to study Greek tragedy. But it is by no means an easy play, and readers requires careful guidance if the ...Show more
Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
Antigone: A New Translation by Sophocles
Category: Plays & Scripts
The final chapter of Sophocles' classic Oedipus cycle, "Antigone" epitomizes the clash between law, social obligations, familial duty, and the honor of the gods. Oedipus' sons have slain each other on the battlefield, but Kreon, their uncle and Thebes' new ruler, has decreed that only Eteokles be buried ...Show more
Antigone And Other Tragedies Antigone Deianeira Electra by Sophocles / Taplin Oliver (Trans)
Category: Classic
Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55
'It's a dreadful thing to yield ...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ...Show more