Bilingual Selections from Sophocles' Antigone : An Introduction to the Text for the Greekless Reader. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1977
- First Edition
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- Title
- Bilingual Selections from Sophocles' Antigone : An Introduction to the Text for the Greekless Reader
- Author
- O'Brien, Joan V.
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication year
- 1977
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809308266
- ISBN 13
- 9780809308262
- Edition
- 1st.
- Item weight
- 1.468 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
An innovative teaching tool for beginning students and text for comparatists lacking facility in Greek, this interlinear translation of seven related passages provides an introduction to the art of Sophocles. In addition, a long introductory essay on the dimensions of the play analyzes Antigones androgynous nature.
The passages chosen readily illustrate Sophocles diction and style and the plays ironic structure. They also reveal the characters of the antagonists. Three are character studies of the heroine. Another, the famed Ode on Man, reveals some of the dramatists deepest thoughts.
OBrien provides summaries of intervening portions of the play, the Greek alphabet, and a grammatical appendix. A transliteration of two passages?the Prologue and the Ode on Man?is designed to help the beginner learn the Greek alphabet and to show combined or elided words in their complete form.
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