Sophocles: Antigone
Part of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Real Author: Sophocles
- Editor: Mark Griffith, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: September 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521337014
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In this new edition of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, Mark Griffith combines sophisticated literary and cultural interpretation with close attention to language, meter, and issues of performance, and thus makes the play more fully available to readers of Greek than ever before. The introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and will interest all students of drama and literature.
Read more- Antigone is a very popular tragedy and is often read and performed
- Mark Griffith's edition of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound has sold over 3,800 paperbacks and has been widely praised
- The introduction needs no Greek and discusses issues interesting to students of drama and classical civilisation generally
Reviews & endorsements
'Griffith … it would be fairer to describe him as thorough, undogmatic, and open-minded. He is in most respects the ideal commentator, and this book will be of permanent value to scholars and students at all levels.' Hermathena
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- Date Published: September 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521337014
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 187 x 124 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.405kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction:
1. Sophocles and Athens
2. The story of Antigone
3. Structure, dramatic technique, style
4. The production
5. The meaning of the play
6. The transmission of the text
Antigone
Commentary.
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