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This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, now reprinted in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with the editor and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.
This is an fine example of one of R.C. Jebb's respected editions of Sophocles' plays, originally appearing in the last years of the 19th century. He gives literary and dramatic interpretations and translations that face the Greek text.
Table of Contents
General Introduction, P.E. Easterling
Antigone: introduction, Ruby Blondell
Preface, R.C.Jebb
INTRODUCTION
§ I. Earliest trace of the story.
§ 2. Aeschylean situation contrast with the Sophoclean.
§ 3 Analysis of the play.
§ 4 Unity of motive. The mode of the catastrophe. The dramatic blemish.
§ 5 A suggested explanation.
§ 6. The question raised by the play.
§ 7 What is the moral intended ?
§ 8. The character of Creon's edict.
§ 9 The edict in its political aspect.
§ 10. Antigone's position.
§ I I. The attitude of the Chorus.
§ I2. Why the Chorus is so constituted.
§ I3. The character of Antigone.
§ I4. Distinctive merit of the
portraiture.
§ IS The character of Creon.
§ I 6. Other treatments of the story. Euripides. Attius. Statius.
Alfieri.
§ I7 Vase-paintings.
§ I8. Mendelssohn's music.
§ I9 Date of the play. The strategia of Sophocles.
§ 20. Had the play any bearing upon the poet's appointment?
§ 2I. Internal evidence for an early date.
§ 22. Place of the play in the series
of the poet's works.
§ 23. The Theban plays-not properly a trilogy.
MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONS, etc.
§ I. The Laurentian MS. (L). Other MSS.
§ 2. Readings due to the Scholia.
§ 3 Points bearing on the relation of L to
the other MSS.
§ 4 The MSS. versus ancient citations.
§ S Interpolation.
§ 6. Emendations.
§ 7 Editions, etc.
METRICAL ANALYSIS
ANCIENT ARGUMENTS TO THE PLAY j DRAMATIS PERSONAE;
STRUCTURE
APPENDIX
INDICES
Product details
| Published | 26 Feb 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 384 |
| ISBN | 9781853996474 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 215 x 140 mm |
| Series | Classic Commentaries |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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