| Sophocles: Antigone Contributor(s): Cairns, Douglas (Author), Harrison, Thomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472505093 ISBN-13: 9781472505095 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Drama | Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 882.01 |
| LCCN: 2016016467 |
| Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Antigone is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But its main aim is to encourage first-hand engagement with the complexities of interpretation that make the play so enduringly thought-provoking and rewarding. Though Creon's actions prove disastrous and Antigone's are vindicated, the Antigone is no simple study in the excesses of tyranny or the virtues of heroic resistance, but a more nuanced exploration of conflicting views of right and wrong and of the conditions that constrain human beings' efforts to control their destinies and secure their happiness. The book's chapters consider the extent of the original audience's acquaintance with earlier versions of the legends of Antigone's family, the structure of the plot as it unfolds in theatrical performance, the presentation of the characters and the motivations that drive them, the major political, social, and ethical themes that the play raises, and the resonance of those themes in the ways that the play has been interpreted, adapted, performed, and appropriated in later periods. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harrison, Thomas: - Thomas Harrison is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, UK. His publications include Divinity and History: the religion of Herodotus (2000), The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth century (2000); as editor Greeks and Barbarians (2002) and the Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (2006).Cairns, Douglas: - Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published widely on Greek lyric and tragedy, including Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010) and Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993). |