2 edition of burial of Sophocles found in the catalog.
burial of Sophocles
Robert W. Sterling
Published
1914
by Blackwell in Oxford
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Written in
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| Pagination | 12 p. |
| Number of Pages | 12 |
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| Open Library | OL16632765M |
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg. Powerfully portraying the clash between civic and familial duty—between morality and obedience—the play brings the Oedipus Cycle .
“Antigone” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, written around gh it was written before Sophocles’ other two Theban plays, chronologically it comes after the stories in “Oedipus the King” and “Oedipus at Colonus”, and it picks up where Aeschylus‘ play “Seven Against Thebes” ends. It deals with Antigone’s burial of her brother Polynices Ratings: Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in , The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in Western drama. Faithful to the play's time and place, The Burial at Thebes represents opposing voices as they enact /5(4).
The Burial at Thebes comes to London’s Lyric Hammersmith for 1 month only. Reworked by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, this translation of Sophocles’ Antigone is a large scale production that tells an epic Burial at Thebes will play an extremely limited 1 month run at the Lyric Hammersmith in London. Tickets for The Burial at Thebes are sure to be in high demand, so book today. The Online Books Page. Online Books by. Sophocles. Online books about this author are available, as is a Wikipedia article.. Sophocles: Ajax, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus) Sophocles: Ajax, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent Flash with commentary at Richer Resources Publications) Sophocles: The Ajax of Sophocles (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c), trans. by R. C. Trevelyan.
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Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before BCE. Of the three Theban plays Antigone is the third in order of the events depicted in the plays, but it is the first that was written.
The play expands on the Theban legend that predates it, and it picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes : Tragedy. Antigone Summary.
Antigone picks up in the same (uber-dismal) place that Oedipus at Colonus leaves off. Oedipus has just passed away in Colonus, and Antigone and her sister decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, avoid a prophecy that predicts they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes.
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Sophocles, the son of Sophilus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeios Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for one of his plays, and he was probably born there. Sophocles was born a few years before the Battle of Marathon in BC: the exact year is unclear, although /6 is the most likely.
Sophocles was born into a wealthy family (his father was Born: / BCE, Colonus, Attica. The Burial at Thebes book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stan /5. : The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone () by Sophocles and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices/5(K).
The Burial at Thebes Book Summary: Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security.
During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto. Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin inThe Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, ng may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly les' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the.
But no work of ancient literature is as obsessed with unburied bodies as Sophocles’ “Antigone,” a tragedy first produced in Athens around B.C.: the Author: Daniel Mendelsohn.
Find books like The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone from the world’s largest community of readers. Goodreads members who liked The Bur. Sophocles ANTIGONE. SOPHOCLES (. B.C.) Antigone An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald Person Represented ANTIGONE ISMENE EURYDICE CREON HAIMON is to have no burial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for File Size: KB.
Finally scared, Creon rethinks his decisions. He dashes off to release Antigone. But he's too late. Antigone has already hanged herself. Haemon grieves beside her body. He attacks his father with a sword, misses completely, and then stabs himself, : Wade Bradford. A Version of Sophocles' Antigone.
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Looking for books by Sophocles? See all books authored by Sophocles, including The Three Theban Plays: Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, and more on Burial was at his family's ancestral tomb along the road between Athens and Decelea, beneath a statue of a siren.
His son Iophon and grandson Sophocles went on to careers as tragedians; it was the grandson who produced the posthumous "Oedipus at Colonus" in BC.
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