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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

✍ Scribed by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles

Book ID
110602168
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
50 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781466855489
ASIN
B00HBPZ7SC

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✦ Synopsis

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone

by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles

Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone's release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a tragic repetition of events in her family's history.

In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

Ebook, 68 pages

Published January 13th 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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