Antigone. Tertium edidit R. D Dawe.

Sophokles.

ISBN 10: 3815418119 / ISBN 13: 9783815418116

Published by Stgt B G Teubner, 1996

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X, 72 S. Original-Kartonband Bibliotheca Teubneriana. - Gutes Exemplar. Gewicht (Gramm): 116.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Antigone. Tertium edidit R. D Dawe.
• Publisher: Stgt B G Teubner
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• ISBN 10: 3815418119
• ISBN 13: 9783815418116
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Weight: 116 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Klassische Philologie

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Synopsis

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.

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.

From the Back Cover

Sophocles. Tragoediae. In usum Scholarum The new Teubner text of Sophocles is the third edition made by R.D. Dawe of Trinity College, Cambridge. The plays now appear separately, in soft covers, at a price which makes them especially suitable for University use. The apparatus criticus records some of the many meritorious suggestions from the past, which Dr. van Paassen's collection has brought to light. The text itself has been drafted on more adventurous principles than before, to offer something smoother and more readable for the less advanced students, and something more provocative of thought for their mentors, in the belief that lively disagreement, if disagreement is called for, is more valuable than unquestioning acquiescence.