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Antigone

Autor Sophocles Ruby Blondell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 1998
This is an English translation of Sophocles’ tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780941051255
ISBN-10: 0941051250
Pagini: 120
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Hackett Publishing Company,Inc
Colecția Focus
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

In her new translation of Antigone, Ruby Blondell demonstrates an unswerving sense of what the general reader needs to know in order not only to understand Sophocles, but to relish him as well… My own students have found that this edition not only makes the Antigone accessible, but also helps them understand why it continues to fascinate, to disturb, and to grip its readers century by century.

—John T. Kirby, Comparative Literature, Purdue University

The Focus Classical Library is dedicated to publishing the best of Classical literature in contemporary translations with notes and introductions so as to provide modern students access to the thought and context at the roots of contemporary culture.
In her new translation of Antigone, Ruby Blondell demonstrates an unswerving sense of what the general reader needs to know in order not only to understand Sophocles, but to relish him as well… My own students have found that this edition not only makes the Antigone accessible, but also helps them understand why it continues to fascinate, to disturb, and to grip its readers century by century.

—John T. Kirby, Comparative Literature, Purdue University

Ruby Blondell is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has published widely on Greek literature and philosophy, and the reception of myth in popular culture. Her books include "The Play of Character in Plato’s Dialogues" (Cambridge 2002); "Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides" (co-authored) (Routledge 1999); "Helping Friends and Harming Enemies. A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics" (Cambridge 1989).

Notă biografică

Sophocles (ca. 495–405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist. Elizabeth Wyckoff (1915–1994) was a professor of classics at Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke. Among her translations are the versions of Sophocles’s Antigone and Euripides’s The Phoenician Women included in Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies. Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
 

Cuprins

Chronology

Contexts (original performance conditions in 441 BCE including the multiple dimensions of the City Dionysia; what is known about Sophocles; the cultural tradition into which Antigone fitted; Athens the city-state in the mid-fifth century BCE)

Translation (transition of Antigone from fifth century BCE performance to the text Don Taylor worked with)

Themes (philosophical ideas in Antigone taken up by philosophers such as Hegel and Butler)

Key moments (key dramatic moments, using the 2012 National Theatre production to investigate these moments)

Characters (Antigone; Creon as civic saviour or ruthless tyrant; Teiresias)

Dramatic devices

Play in performance (with a focus on the 2012 National Theatre production, which used Don Taylor's translation and interviews with practitioners from this production, including director Polly Findlay, dramaturg Ben Power and actors Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker)

PLAY TEXT

Notes

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Sophocles' masterpiece Antigone dramatizes the terrible series of events that results when patriotism clashes with familial duty—and hubris incites the wrath of the gods.
The sons of Oedipus have killed each other on the battlefield, but Thebes' new ruler, their uncle Kreon, decrees that only Eteokles will be granted a hero's burial; Polyneikes, who attacked his own city, is left to rot in dishonor. Their sister Antigone, enraged by the king's heartlessness, defies him by burying Polyneikes' body herself. That decision dooms her, and the consequences destroy Kreon's wife and son. A play that begins with a woman's defiance of a tyrant ends in the havoc caused by Eros, the god of love. A drama abounding with moral conundrums, Antigone is presented in an extraordinary new translation by Robert Bagg, modern in idiom while faithful to the original Greek. Ideally suited for reading, teaching, or performing, this is Sophocles for a new generation to discover and admire.