Antigone (Classic Drama Series) - Softcover

Sophocles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1507535945 ISBN 13: 9781507535943

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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ANTIGONE discusses one of the deepest problems of civilized life. On the morning after the defeat of the Seven who assaulted Thebes, Polyneices' body lay dishonored and unburied, a prey to carrion birds before the gates of the city which had been his home. His two sisters, Antigone and Ismene, discuss the edict which forbids his burial. Ismene, the more timid of the two, intends to obey it, but Antigone's stronger character rises in rebellion.

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Sophocles. He was born at Colonus, near Athens, in 495, mixed with the best society in Periclean times, was a member of the important board of administrators who controlled the Delian League, the nucleus of the Athenian Empire, and composed over one hundred tragedies. In 468 he defeated Aeschylus, won the first prize twenty-two times and later had to face the more formidable opposition of the new and restless spirit whose chief spokesman was Euripides. For nearly forty years he was taken to be the typical dramatist of Athens, being nicknamed "the Bee"; his dramatic powers showed no abatement of vigour in old age, of which the Oedipus Coloneus was the triumphant issue. He died in 405, full of years and honours. — adapted from AUTHORS OF GREECE, by T. W. Lumb

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1507535945
• ISBN 13: 9781507535943
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64