The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone
- ISBN-10
- 0571224083
- ISBN-13
- 9780571224081
- Series
- The Burial at Thebes
- Category
- Antigone (Greek mythology)
- Pages
- 56
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Authors
- Sophocles, Seamus Heaney
Description
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 ...
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2014-01-13
- 88 pages
- Ebook
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Similar books
-
The Thebans
By Timberlake Wertenbaker, SophoclesPeter 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 Thebans
By SophoclesThe story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone, and the ancient Greek theme of power, both mortal and godlike.
-
Sophocles' Antigone
By SophoclesA 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.
-
Hölderlin's Sophocles: Oedipus & Antigone
By Sophocles, Friedrich HölderlinFriedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets.
-
Three Theban Plays
By SophoclesThe 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.
-
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
By SophoclesThe Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
-
Antigone
By Henry BauchauAprès 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.
-
Antigone ; Oedipus the King ; Electra
By SophoclesContains three of Sophocles' most famous tragedies. Includes introduction, textual note, chronology, and explanatory notes.
-
Antigone ; Oedipus the King ; Electra
By SophoclesContains three of Sophocles' most famous tragedies. Includes introduction, textual note, chronology, and explanatory notes.
-
Beyond the Tragedies of Oedipus and Antigone
By Art AeonBeyond the Tragedies of Oedipus and Antigone