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Antigone by Sophocles
$13.99 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Drama Classics S.
A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights. The war has ended, but with peace comes conflict. Antigone s brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon, the new king of ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
$11.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"I would call the register 'restrained colloquial'. The language ranges between the straightforward and the genuinely poetic, its dominant characteristic being freshness. This is not the usual dull translationese, which reads as if the original were not in a language people once spoke and wrote and crea ...Show more
Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55
'It's a dreadful thing to yield ...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ...Show more
Four Tragedies - Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles; Peter Meineck (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by); Paul Woodruff (Notes by, Introduction by, Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the th ...Show more
Sophocles: Antigone by Sophocles
$21.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimula ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
Theban Plays by Sophocles
$12.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Anc ...Show more
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