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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9781580493888 ISBN: 1580493882 Label: Prestwick House, Inc. Manufacturer: Prestwick House, Inc. Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: December 01, 2005 Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc. Studio: Prestwick House, Inc. Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A play for our times from 2500 years agoAntigone is part of the Thebes trilogy by Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. While written some 2500 years ago these Greek tragedies have meaning for us today, especially Antigone. The basic story is clear: The king of Thebes, Creon, orders the body of Antigone's brother, Polyneices, to be left unburied to be eaten by animals because he rebelled against the king. Cleon then decrees a law that anyone who seeks to bury Polyneices will be put to death. Antigone defies this ... Read More Rating: - Essential reading for a classical educationI read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of loyalty of love and the divine law, she defies Creon, the King and her uncle. Creon says laws of states outweigh all other laws, and family loyalty, when ... Read More 
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