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A stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Antigone taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the Greek tragedies. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's Complete Greek Tragedies series, this stand-alone edition of Elizabeth Wyckoff's elegant rendition of Antigone reminds readers why it endures...
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A stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Antigone taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the Greek tragedies.
Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's Complete Greek Tragedies series, this stand-alone edition of Elizabeth Wyckoff's elegant rendition of Antigone reminds readers why it endures as one of the most widely read and admired of Sophocles's plays. Though the story unfolds in the aftermath of Oedipus the King, Antigone was the first of the Theban Plays written by Sophocles.
Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most's introduction to the story of one woman's brave resistance in the face of unfathomable loss provides essential information about the play's first production, plot, and reception in antiquity.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780226844657
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 December 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Contributors:
- Introduction by Mark Griffith
- Translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff
- Introduction by Glenn W. Most
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Sophocles (ca. 495–405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist. Elizabeth Wyckoff (1915–1994) was a professor of classics at Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke. Among her translations are the versions of Sophocles’s Antigone and Euripides’s The Phoenician Women included in Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies. Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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