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Antigone

by Sophocles
David Mulroy
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Sophocles' Antigone ranks with his Oedipus Rex as one of world literature's most compelling dramas. The action is taut, and the characters embody universal tensions: the conflict of youth with age, male with female, the state with the family. Plot and character come wrapped in exquisite language. Antagonists trade polished speeches, sardonic jibes and epigrammatic truisms and break into song at the height of passion.
David Mulroy's translation of Antigone faithfully reproduces the literal meaning of Sophocles' words while also reflecting his verbal pyrotechnics. Using fluid iambic pentameters for the spoken passages and rhyming stanzas for the songs, it is true to the letter and the spirit of the great Greek original.
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Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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  • Release date: February 8, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780299290832
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  • ISBN: 9780299290832
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  • ISBN: 9780299290832
  • File size: 468 KB
  • Release date: February 8, 2013

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subjects

Drama Fiction History

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1090
Text Difficulty:7-9

Sophocles' Antigone ranks with his Oedipus Rex as one of world literature's most compelling dramas. The action is taut, and the characters embody universal tensions: the conflict of youth with age, male with female, the state with the family. Plot and character come wrapped in exquisite language. Antagonists trade polished speeches, sardonic jibes and epigrammatic truisms and break into song at the height of passion.
David Mulroy's translation of Antigone faithfully reproduces the literal meaning of Sophocles' words while also reflecting his verbal pyrotechnics. Using fluid iambic pentameters for the spoken passages and rhyming stanzas for the songs, it is true to the letter and the spirit of the great Greek original.
Expand title description text
Drama Fiction History
  • Details

    Publisher:
    University of Wisconsin Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: February 8, 2013

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780299290832
    Release date: February 8, 2013

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780299290832
    File size: 468 KB
    Release date: February 8, 2013

    Open EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780299290832
    File size: 468 KB
    Release date: February 8, 2013

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    Open EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 1090
    Text Difficulty: 7-9