Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek and of the needs of the teaching classicist, ...
The story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power, both mortal and godlike.
A retelling of the Greek drama in which King Creon of Thebes refuses to allow the burial of his nephew, whom he has declared a traitor and whose sister, Antigone, is betrothed to Creon's son.
Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets.
The story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others. It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother, a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them.
Après avoir suivi son père Œdipe, le roi aveugle, jusqu'au bout de son parcours, Antigone rentre à Thèbes pour tenter d'apaiser la colère de ses deux frères qui se disputent le trône.
Contains three of Sophocles' most famous tragedies. Includes introduction, textual note, chronology, and explanatory notes.
Contains three of Sophocles' most famous tragedies. Includes introduction, textual note, chronology, and explanatory notes.
Beyond the Tragedies of Oedipus and Antigone
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply ...