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Antigone

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199838976
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Antigone written by Sophocles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The series seeks to recover the entire extant corpus of Greek tragedy, quite as though the ancient tragedians wrote in the English of our own time. Under the editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each of these volumes includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. This finely-tuned translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Richard Emil Braun, both a distinguished poet and a professional scholar-critic, offers, in lean, sinewy verse and lyrics of unusual intensity, an interpretation informed by exemplary scholarship and critical insight. Braun presents an Antigone not marred by excessive sentimentality or pietistic attitudes. His translation underscores the extraordinary structural symmetry and beauty of Sophocles' design by focusing on the balanced and harmonious view of tragically opposed wills that makes the play so moving. Unlike the traditionally gentle and pious protagonist opposed to a brutal and villainous Creon, Braun's Antigone emerges as a true Sophoclean heroine--with all the harshness and even hubris, as well as pathos and beauty, that Sophoclean heroism requires. Braun also reveals a Creon as stubbornly "principled" as Antigone, instead of simply the arrogant tyrant of conventional interpretations.

Sophocles

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172072
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Jacques Jouanna and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century. Sophocles was the commanding figure of his day. The author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, he was not only the leading dramatist but also a distinguished politician, military commander, and religious figure. And yet the evidence about his life has, until now, been fragmentary. Reconstructing a lost literary world, Jouanna has finally assembled all the available information, culled from inscriptions, archaeological evidence, and later sources. He also offers a huge range of new interpretations, from his emphasis on the significance of Sophocles' political and military offices (previously often seen as honorary) to his analysis of Sophocles' plays in the mythic and literary context of fifth-century drama. Written for scholars, students, and general readers, this book will interest anyone who wants to know more about Greek drama in general and Sophocles in particular. With an extensive bibliography and useful summaries not only of Sophocles' extant plays but also, uniquely, of the fragments of plays that have been partially lost, it will be a standard reference in classical studies for years to come.

Oedipus the King

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781700021755
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the play, Oedipus is the beloved ruler of the city of Thebes, whose citizens have been stricken by a plague. Consulting the Delphic oracle, Oedipus is told that the plague will cease only when the murderer of Queen Jocasta's first husband, King Laius, has been found and punished for his deed. Oedipus resolves to find Laius's killer. His investigation turns into an obsessive reconstruction of his own hidden past when he discovers that the old man he killed when he first approached Thebes as a youth was none other than Laius. At the end, Jocasta hangs herself in shame, and the guilt-stricken Oedipus blinds himself.

The Theban Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585106267
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology includes English translations of three plays of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous, and Oidipous at Colonus. The trilogy includes an introductory essay on Sophocles life, ancient theatre, and the mythic and religious background of the plays. Each of these plays is available from Focus in a single play edition. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Antigone and other Tragedies

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192608886
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Antigone and other Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or to provide a redemptive justification of the ways of gods to men or women. These three tragedies portray the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths into supreme works of poetry and dramatic action. Antigone's obsession with the dead, Creon's crushing inflexibility, Deianeira's jealous desperation, the injustice of the gods witnessed by Hyllus, Electra's obsessive vindictiveness, the threatening of insoluble dynastic contamination... Such are the pains and distortions and instabilities of Sophoclean tragedy. And yet they do not deteriorate into cacophony or disgust or incoherence or silence: they face the music, and through that the suffering is itself turned into the coherence of music and poetry. These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies. Each play is accompanied by an introduction and substantial notes on topographical and mythical references and interpretation.

Late Sophocles

Author : Thomas Van Nortwick
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119567
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Late Sophocles written by Thomas Van Nortwick and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible examination of the evolution of key Sophoclean characters

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199978824
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy written by Simon Goldhill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors and the chorus. Goldhill also investigates how nineteenth-century critics like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wagner developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current approach to the genre. Finally, Goldhill addresses one of the foundational questions of literary criticism: how historically self-conscious should a reading of Greek tragedy be? The result is an invigorating and exciting new interpretation of the most canonical of Western authors.

The Oedipus Cycle

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156027649
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Oedipus Cycle written by Sophocles and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1977 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.

The Theban Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141905646
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-04-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone Three towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynasty The legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority. Translated with an Introduction by E. F. WATLING

Sophocles I

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226311538
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles I written by Sophocles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century. In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new translations of Euripides’ Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.

Antigone

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Five Great Greek Tragedies

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113884
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Five Great Greek Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson).

Plays

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985041905
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Plays written by Sophocles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles (born c. 496 bc, Colonus, near Athens [Greece]-died 406, Athens) was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. Not many things are known about his life other than that he was wealthy, well educated and wrote about one hundred and twenty three plays (of which few are extant). One of his best known plays is 'Oedipus the King' (Oedipus Rex).

Sophocles

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Study of Sophoclean Drama

Author : Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482410
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book A Study of Sophoclean Drama written by Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in the dramatic methods of Sophocles, especially in the revelation of character, as the primary essence of Sophocles' art.

Sophocles and Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492927
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and Alcibiades written by Michael Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing other authors - Thucydides, Plato and Euripides - in whom he also demonstrates a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.

Sophocles

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Aris & Phillips
ISBN 13 : 0856687669
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by Aris & Phillips. This book was released on 2006 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the volume of six fragementary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more. The volume includes the text and translation of all the surviving fragements (and of a selection of other texts that give us information about these plays), with full commentary and an introduction to each play discussing, among other things, the development of the myth and the likely content of the play so far as it can be reconstructed"--Publisher's description, back cover of vol. 2.