Guide to Sophocles' Antigone: A Student Edition - Softcover

Joan V. O'Brien (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809307804 ISBN 13: 9780809307807

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978

Synopsis

Designed primarily to be used along­side a standard school text of the Antig­one, this first extensive commentary since the Jebb 1891 edition represents a new concept in text commentary. The work is built around seven selected passages specifically chosen to illustrate the poet’s diction, the play’s ironic structure, and the antagonists’ charac­ter. Grammatical notes, a compre­hensive commentary on the literary, philosophical, and historical aspects of the play, and a vocabulary to all the Greek words that appear in the play are designed to acquaint the intermediate student of Greek with the peculiarities of tragic diction and vocabulary.

About this title

About the Author

Joan V. O’Brien is Associate Profes­sor of Classical Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809307804
• ISBN 13: 9780809307807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224