Children's Fiction, General

Antigone

Name: Antigone
Author: Sophocles
ISBN: 9781420926040

by Sophocles, E. H. Plumptre

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Synopsis

A text of and commentary on Sophocles' tragedy Antigone.

Joseph Russo

A lucid, well-paced translation, natural enough sounding in the dialogue to make a good acting version.

About the Author, Sophocles

Reginald Gibbons is Professor of English at Northwestern University. His books of poetry include It's Time and Homage to Longshot O'Leary. Charles Segal was Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His books include dipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledgend phocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society. The two also translated Euripides' Bakkhai.