Dimensions
135 x 203 x 9mm
One third of Sophocles's eternally classic Oedipus Cycle, ANTIGONE epitomizes the clash between civic and familial duty.
ANTIGONE opens just before dawn in Thebes, on the day after the city's defenders repelled a massive assault by fighters from seven Argive cities. In the battle, two cherished sons of Greee, two brothers fighting over the throne of Thebes, have killed one another. Kreon assumes the throne and orders that Eteokles be honored, mourned and buried. Kreon dishonors the traitor Polyneikes by denying him any burial rites at all. Anyone who violates this edict, he declares, will be stoned to death. But Antigone believes family obligation and divine law demand she bury Polyneikes despite the extreme danger. When her sister Ismene refuses to help, Antigone heads toward the battlefield alone.
Bagg's goal has been to make an accurate but idiomatic renderings of the Greek original that is suited for reading, teaching, or performing.
