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Antigone

Author: Sophocles.; Reginald Gibbons; Charles Segal
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series: Greek tragedy in new translations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Publisher's description: Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' play has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This exciting new translation of the Antigone is both extremely faithful to the Greek and poetically striking and convincing.
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Genre/Form: Tragedies
Drama
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sophocles.; Reginald Gibbons; Charles Segal
ISBN: 0195143736 9780195143737 0195143108 9780195143102
OCLC Number: 50041282
Description: ix, 197 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: On the Translation 37 --
Antigone 51.
Series Title: Greek tragedy in new translations.
Other Titles: Antigone.
Responsibility: Sophocles ; translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal.
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For anyone interested in Greek tragedy and classical literature, this volume combines the work of a modern poet and an expert classicist in interpreting a play.  Read more...

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"Gibbons's translation is the most faithful to the original Greek I know ... his translation is the truest to Sophocles' language." --The Journal of Classics Teaching


"Gibbons' text remains


"These two new additions to Oxford's 'Greek Tragedy in New Translations' series only add to the luster of the previous releases. Each is firmly packed with insightful introductions, comprehensive and numbered notes, glossaries, and up-to-date bibliographies (the plays' texts take up about half of each volume). The collaboration of poet and scholar in each volume produces a language that is easy to read and easy to speak (compare, for instance Read more...

 
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