Antigone, 9780226844657
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Summary

A stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Antigone taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies.

Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press’s Complete Greek Tragedies series, this stand-alone edition of Elizabeth Wyckoff’s elegant rendition of Antigone reminds readers why it endures as one of the most widely read and admired of Sophocles’s plays. Though the story unfolds in the aftermath of Oedip…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780226844657
ISBN-10:022684465X
Author:Sophocles, Elizabeth Wyckoff, Glenn W. Most, Mark Griffith
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:University of Chicago Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:6 March 2026
Weight:86g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 8mm
About The Author

Sophocles

Sophocles (ca. 495–405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist.

Elizabeth Wyckoff (1915–1994) was a professor of classics at Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke. Among her translations are the versions of Sophocles’s Antigone and Euripides’s The Phoenician Women included in Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies.

Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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