The Burial at Thebes

2014-01-13
The Burial at Thebes

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  • Author: Sophocles
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN: 1466855487
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 92

Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone's release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a tragic repetition of events in her family's history. In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

Seamus Heaney and the Classics

2019
Seamus Heaney and the Classics

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  • Author: S. J. Harrison
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 0198805659
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

The death in 2013 of Seamus Heaney is an appropriate point to honour the great Irish poet's major contribution to classical reception in modern poetry. This is the first volume to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on Heaney's work, focusing primarily on his fascination with Greek drama and myth and his interest in Latin poetry.

Antigone

1966
Antigone

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  • Author: Sophocles
  • Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Greek drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 72

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An Oresteia

2010-03-02
An Oresteia

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  • Author: Aeschylus
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 086547916X
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

In this innovative rendition of The Oresteia, the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions -- Aischylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra, and Euripides' Orestes, giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. Carson's accomplished rendering combines elements of contemporary vernacular with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up the plays to a modern audience. --from publisher description.

The Story of Antigone

2019-03-26
The Story of Antigone

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  • Author: Ali Smith
  • Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
  • ISBN: 1782690891
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 101

Now there's a girl who understands things, the crow thought. When two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, die in a vicious battle over the crown of Thebes, the new ruler, King Creon, decides that Eteocles will be buried as a hero, while Polynices will be left outside as a feast for the dogs and crows. But the young Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, will defy the cruel tyrant and attempt to give her brother the burial he deserves. This simple act of love and bravery will set in motion a terrible course of events that will reverberate across the entire kingdom... Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."

The Antigone Poems

2014
The Antigone Poems

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  • Author: Marie Slaight
  • Publisher: Altaire Productions & Publications
  • ISBN: 9780980644708
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

'A beautifully bound, impressive collection with language as evocative as its illustrations.' Kirkus Reviews The Antigone Poems, featuring poetry by Marie Slaight and drawings by Terrence Tasker, was created in the 1970's, while the artists were living between Montreal and Toronto. A powerful retelling of the ancient Greek tale of defiance and justice, the book is starkly illustrated, and its poetry captures the anguish and despair of the original tale in an unembellished modernized rendition. The Antigone Poems will be a print-only book, with a specialty paper (Spicer's Swiss White from the Australian-made Stevens Collection), Section-sewn binding, and jacket flaps.

Thebes, Its Tombs and Their Tenants, Ancient and Present, Including a Record of Excavations in the Necropolis

1862
Thebes, Its Tombs and Their Tenants, Ancient and Present, Including a Record of Excavations in the Necropolis

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  • Author: Alexander Henry Rhind
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 382

Antigone, Interrupted

2013-05-02
Antigone, Interrupted

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  • Author: Bonnie Honig
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107355648
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 341

Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions. Exploring the power of Antigone in a variety of political, cultural, and theoretical settings, Honig identifies the 'Antigone-effect' - which moves those who enlist Antigone for their politics from activism into lamentation. She argues that Antigone's own lamentations can be seen not just as signs of dissidence but rather as markers of a rival world view with its own sovereignty and vitality. Honig argues that the play does not offer simply a model for resistance politics or 'equal dignity in death', but a more positive politics of counter-sovereignty and solidarity which emphasizes equality in life.

Three Theban Plays

2014-06-26
Three Theban Plays

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  • Author: Sophocles
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781497367326
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

"The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope."Theses heroic Greek dramas have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. They tower above other tragedies and have a place on the College Board AP English reading list.

Home Fire

2017
Home Fire

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  • Author: Kamila Shamsie
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0735217688
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

"Ingenious... Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." --The New York Times WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma's worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to--or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Suddenly, two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?