Book description
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few…
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1 author picked Antigone as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Most contemporary playgoers and readers focus their attention on Princess Antigone’s courageous defiance of her uncle King Creon’s unjust decree that her slain brother’s body could not receive a proper burial. Actually, Sophocles wanted his Athenian audience to pay heed to how Creon’s egotism, vanity, and stubborn refusal to listen to wise counsel lead to the deaths of those he loves and to the destruction of his kingdom.
The play is a subtle lesson in how not to lead addressed to Athens’s ruling oligarchs. It is still relevant some 2,400 years after it was written.
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