Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality
- ISBN-10
- 0823251322
- ISBN-13
- 9780823251322
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07
- Publisher
- Fordham Univ Press
- Author
- Jonathan Strauss
Description
Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual.
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