Sophocles
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| Title | : | Antigone (The Theban Plays #3) |
| Author | : | Sophocles |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 80 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 2005 by Ingram (first published -441) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Plays. Drama. Fiction. Academic. School |
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The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury her own brother. Determined but doomed, Antigone shows her inner strength throughout the play. Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can. To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.Identify Books Supposing Antigone (The Theban Plays #3)
| Original Title: | Ἀντιγόνη |
| ISBN: | 1580493882 (ISBN13: 9781580493888) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Theban Plays #3 |
| Characters: | Antigone, Ismene (sister of Antigone), Eurydice (wife of Creon), Haemon, Tiresias, Creon |
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"Please, be different this once.Believe in what someone else says for once.Whenever a man supposes that he alonehas intelligence or expression or feelings,he exposes himself and shows his emptiness.But it's no shame even for a wise manto learn and to relent."Hear hear! These are the words of Haimon after his father sentenced his fiance to death for defying an order on moral/religious grounds. I absolutely loved this play. It's still a common problem in our society, where people (not only thoseI am not well-schooled in tragedies--the Greek tragedies, that is--but when I learned that one of the books I intended to read for the Man Booker award this year was based on the story of Antigone, I thought now was a good time to have a look.This is the first I have encountered of the play, I loved it. It is filled with terrific emotion and common responses to tragedy, as well as wisdom unbound. The personalities are strong and salty...and act on their promises.Those of you who know the story
I read this in preparation for reading Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie which is one of the books on this year's Man Booker longlist.I've come out of it with a mental picture of Creon with blonde, wispy hair and an overactive Twitter account. And then I came across this:https://www.uvapolitics.com/editorial....In this article, we read the following quote:But how can a person be called illegal? Is not the purpose of the law to protect persons and establish conditions in which they may flourish?
I read this in preparation for reading Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie from this year's Man Booker longlist.And I read in a different translation to the edition shown here, one sticking more literally to the original Greek, including not translating terms where it felt there was no satisfactory equivalent. This was important in clarifying some of the key themes, but rather puts the onus of interpretation back on the reader (and this reader is no expert in ancient Greek philosophy).A number of things
Owen Bennett Jones recently wrote on the Islamic State in the LRB. "Every time a Jihadi movement has won power it has lost popularity by failing to give the people what they want: peace, security and jobs." When I read that I thought about poor King Creon. I have always felt disturbed by the vice of fate in this play which steadily traps and crushes. It was Creon's hubris which caught my attention this time. Doesn't he have a mandate? I imagine him simply incredulous. Why this dissent?
Seeing a Middle School Production of Antigone in Munich: The Sophie Scholl Story and Reflecting on How to Foster Youth Resistance in Meaningful Ways: A MeditationI am not afraid of the danger. If it means death, it will not be the worst of deaths--death without honor--AntigoneAntigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.Ismene: Who said that?Antigone: Hegel.Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel--The chorus in Anne Carson's translation of Sophocles
Well, this resonated deeply with me. Especially the relationship between Antigone and her flighty and untrustworthy sister Ismene. Man, that part when Ismene now suddenly wants to stand at her sister's side after the King Creon has sentenced Antigone to be immured, really pissed me off and brought up all kinds of feelings of injustice and indignation. As with Electra, Antigone is a woman alone facing the self-righteousness of an elder king unwilling to lose face or learn anything new he hasn't
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