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Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought

By George Steiner

Book information

Year
1986
ISBN
0192819348, 9780859891257, 9780300069150, 9780198126652, 9780192819345, 0198126654, 0300069154, 0859891259, 0195204875, 9780195204872
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
10 MB (10777287 bytes)
Pages
324\331
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the orders of Creon, king of Thebes. Creon sentenced Antigone to death, but, before the order could be executed, she committed suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon--between the state and the individual, between young and old, between men and women--has captured the Western imagination for more than 2,000 years. Antigone and Creon are as alive in the politics and poetics of our own day as they were in ancient Athens. Here, Steiner examines the treatment of the Antigone theme in Western art, literature and thought, leading us to look again at the unique influence Greek myths exercise on twentieth-century culture. About the Author: George Steiner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva and Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge

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