Grippingly readable, all three translations combine fidelity to the Greek. Seller rating: This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at Colonus by Meineck. This exciting new translation of the play is extremely faithful to the Greek, eminently playable, and poetically powerful. Antigone by Sophocles, Paul Woodruff Condition Used:Good Published Binding Paperback ISBN 10 0872205711 Quantity Available 1 Seller. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky." "Echoing through Western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' Antigone 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 destinies. He has been writing critically acclaimed articles about ancient. Summary: "Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Paul Woodruff is an influential author and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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