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Antigone (The Theban Plays #3)

Sophocles

Paperback | Pages: 80 pages

Rating: 3.65 | 99462 Users | 2624 Reviews

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Title	:	Antigone (The Theban Plays #3)
Author	:	Sophocles
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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.

Be Specific About Books As 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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Ratings: 3.65 From 99462 Users | 2624 Reviews

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Suck on that, Creon. They named the play after her.

This was a reread for me. The first time I read this play was in my sophomore year or high school and I remember liking it but I LOVED it this time around. It's fabulous and now I want to read the rest of the Theban plays.

Ἀντιγόνη = Antigone, SophoclesAntigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC. It is the third of the three Theban plays chronologically, but was the first written. The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends. In the beginning of the play, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war died fighting each other for the throne. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has decided that Eteocles will be honored and

What a work it was.!! The copy I have is by Penguin Little Black Classics series,and I was delaying reading it since the print was tiny and set in a style I didn't like. But now I realize what a stupid I was to have delayed reading such a piece of beauty... Moralizing isn't everyone's forte. Too many have written such a lot of works on the topic that the moment one starts reading something on it,the natural reaction is 'not again.!' This book is a bit different in that genre. It moralizes,it

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.I have always found this play, and any of Sophocles tragedies, as comedies. Apparently I have a very bad sense of humour. But there is nothing more hilarious in literature than poetic justice. It is not as funny as Oedipus Rex, but it is quite funny still, since Antigone sticks it up to Creon. Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, and she has also now lost her

Antigone is a real heroine; she stands up for what she believes in. She was faced with a strong dilemma. The law of man, the word of her uncle the king, demands that her brother's body remains unburied in the open with no funeral rights, to be savaged by animals. For King Creon, this is a symbolic justice for a traitor and a rebel, but the laws of the Gods, and the ruling of Antigones own mind, demands that she gives him libations (death rights) that all men deserve. She buries the body and

I'm sticking with my original rating on this one. I enjoyed reading it again. Unfortunately, my students didn't seem to connect to it. The translation I remember reading as a student was much better--the one in our anthology is very complex and takes away from the simplicity of the Greek language. The ideas become lost in "thees" and "thous." I don't know why the translator felt the need to mimic Shakespeare. However, my students wrote very interesting and (some) nuanced responses to my