Sophocles: Antigone 0521337011, 9780521337014

In this new edition of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, Mark Griffith combines sophisticated literary and cultural inte

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English Pages 378 [386] Year 1999

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
A NOTE ON METRICAL SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
1. SOPHOKLES AND ATHENS
2. THE STORY OF ANTIGONE
3. STRUCTURE, DRAMATIC TECHNIQUE, STYLE
4. THE PRODUCTION
5. THE MEANING OF THE PLAY
(a) Aesthetics
(b) Lessons
(c) Characters
(d) Ethics
(e) Contradictions
(i) Human/divine
(ii) Polis/oikos
(iii) Male/female
(f) Politics
(g) Fantasies
6. THE TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXT
A NOTE ON THE TEXT AND APPARATUS CRITICUS
ANTIGONE
COMMENTARY
1-99 Opening Scene (Prologos)
100-61 Entrance Song (Parodos) of the Chorus
162-331 Scene Two (First Epeisodion)
332-75 Second Song (First Stasimon) of the Chorus
376-581 Scene Three (Second Epeisodion)
582-625 Third Song (Second Stasimon) of the Chorus
626-780 Scene Four (Third Epeisodion)
781-800 Fourth Song (Third Stasimon) of the Chorus
801-943 Scene Five (Kommos and Fourth Epeisodion)
883-943 Scene Five (Fourth Epeisodion)
944-87 Fifth Song (Fourth Stasimon) of the Chorus
988-1114 Scene Six (Fifth Epeisodion)
1115-54 Sixth Song (Fifth Stasimon) of the Chorus
1155-1256 Scene Seven (Sixth Epeisodion)
1257-1353 Scene Eight: Final Scene (Kommos and Exodos)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEXES
1. Subjects
2. Greek Words

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c a m b r i d g e g r e e k a n d l at i n c l a s s i c s

sophocles antigone

E DIT E D BY M A Rk griffi t h

University Printing House, CambridgeiCB2 i8BS,iUnited Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521337014 © Cambridge University Press 1999 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1999 18th printing 2016 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc. A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Sophocles. [Sophocles. Antigone] Antigone / Sophocles; edited by Mark Griffith p. cm. – (Cambridge Greek and Latin classics) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0 521 33056 4 (hardback) – ISBN 0 521 33701 4 (paperback) I. Antigone (Greek mythology) – Drama. 1. Griffith, Mark. 11. Title. 111. Series PA 4413. A 7 1999 882.01‒ dc21 98 ‒35827 CIP ¢ ISBN

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