Antigone
By: Sophocles ; translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal.
Contributors: Gibbons, Reginald.; Segal, Charles, 1936-
Series: Greek tragedy in new translations
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Antigone (Greek mythology) -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: Publisher's description: Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' play has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This exciting new translation of the Antigone is both extremely faithful to the Greek and poetically striking and convincing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197).
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- On the translation -- Antigone -- Notes on the text -- Appendix 1 : The date of Antigone -- Appendix 2 : The myth of Antigone, to the end of the Fifth Century BCE -- Appendix 3 : The transmission of the text -- Glossary -- Suggestions for further reading.