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Book Title
Burial at Thebes : a Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Publication Name
The Burial at Thebes
Title
The Burial at Thebes
Subtitle
A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
EAN
9780374530075
ISBN
9780374530075
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format
Perfect
Release Year
2005
Release Date
01/11/2005
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.2in
Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Genre
Drama, Poetry, History
Author
Sophocles
Translator
Seamus Heaney
Contributor
Seamus Heaney (Translated by)
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Ancient / Greece, General, Ancient & Classical, Religious & Liturgical
Number of Pages
96 Pages

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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.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374530076
ISBN-13
9780374530075
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46468314

Product Key Features

Book Title
Burial at Thebes : a Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Author
Sophocles
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / Greece, General, Ancient & Classical, Religious & Liturgical
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Drama, Poetry, History
Number of Pages
96 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz

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Praise for Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf: " "Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." --James Wood, "The Guardian", Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem., Praise for Seamus Heaney's translation ofBeowulf : "Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." --James Wood,The Guardian, Praise for Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf : "Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." --James Wood, The Guardian, "Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." -- James Wood, The Guardian on Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
Dewey Decimal
822/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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