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Guide to 7 passages from Antigone to be used with A.C. Pearson's text of the play, with the author's interlinear text of : The Bilingual selections from Sophocles' Antigone, or with an annotated school text.

According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon - between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old - has captured the Western imagination for more than 2000 years. George Steiner here examines the far-reaching...

In this video, Anthony Quayle and Juliet Stevenson star in a new translation of the ancient Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. Oedipus and Antigone seek sanctuary from Theseus because the blind man does not want to die in Thebes.

Drama that illustrates the tensions that arise on campus when a student and professor clash over her term paper, a contemporary rendering of the Greek classic "Antigone," and the dispute deteriorates into accusations of anti-Semitism, a loss of integrity, and the destruction of a career

"Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, influencing a vast array of artists and thinkers over the centuries. Disturbing and unrelenting, his tragedies portray what Matthew Arnold referred to as 'the turbid ebb and flow of human misery', allowing the audience to stand on the verge of the abyss and confront the waste and disorder of human existence. The heroic myths reinterpreted in the plays locate them within a world in which...

"The noted novelist Anthony Burgess has provided, in this translation and adaptation of the Greek classic, a highly dramatic and forceful piece of work, one which is theatrically effective for present-day audiences. It is the version on which was based a major production by the Guthrie Theater Company under the direction of Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The dialogue, though modern, conveys the feeling of the ancient period....

Presents the life and works of the Greek playwright Sophocles.

Articles, essays, and reviews provide a wide range of information and opinion about Sophocles as a dramatist, his universally recognized "Oedipus the King," and focused topics, such as a specific technique or theme he employed.