Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality
- ISBN-10
- 0823251349
- ISBN-13
- 9780823251346
- Category
- Greek drama (Tragedy)
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Author
- Jonathan Strauss
Description
Here, Jonathan Strauss shows how Sophocles' tragedy 'Antigone' crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment - fifth-century Athens - into one idea: the value of a single, living person.
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