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Antigone

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Antigone
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sophocles
Edited and translated by Ruby Blondell
SeriesFocus Classical Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:116
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780941051255
ClassificationsDewey:882.01
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 1 map

Publishing Details

Publisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Publication Date 1 January 1998
Publication Country United States

Description

This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Author Biography

Ruby Blondell is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has published widely on Greek literature and philosophy, and the reception of myth in popular culture. Her books include "The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues" (Cambridge 2002); "Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides" (co-authored) (Routledge 1999); "Helping Friends and Harming Enemies. A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics" (Cambridge 1989).

Reviews

In her new translation of Antigone, Ruby Blondell demonstrates an unswerving sense of what the general reader needs to know in order not only to understand Sophocles, but to relish him as well... My own students have found that this edition not only makes the Antigone accessible, but also helps them understand why it continues to fascinate, to disturb, and to grip its readers century by century. -John T. Kirby, Comparative Literature, Purdue University