Recapturing Sophocles' "Antigone"

191 Pages·1998·25.724 MB·English

by  William Blake Tyrrell, Larry J. Bennett

Recapturing
Sophocles’ Antigone
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
General Editor: Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
Assistant Editor: Timothy Power, Harvard University
On the front cover: A calendar frieze representing the Athenian months, reused
in the Byzantine Church of the Little Metropolis in Athens. The cross is
superimposed, obliterating Taurus of the Zodiac. The choice of this frieze for
books in Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches reflects this series’
emphasis on the blending of the diverse heritages—Near Eastern, Classical, and
Christian—in the Greek tradition. Drawing by Laurie Kain Hart, based on a
photograph. Recent titles in the series are:
The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, Jenny Strauss Clay,
University of Virginia
Talking Trojan: Speech and Community in the Iliad, Hilary Mackie, Rice
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Poet and Audience in the Argonautica of Apollonius, Robert V. Albis,
The Hotchkiss School
Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus,
Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology,
Religious Role, and Social Function, Claude Calame, University of
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Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics,
Helen Pournara Karydas, Boston Latin School and Harvard University
Speech in Speech: Studies in Incorporated Oratio Recta in Attic Drama and
Oratory, Victor Bers, Yale University
Aegean Strategies: Studies of Culture and Environment on the European
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Aglaia: The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna,
Charles Segal, Harvard University
Immortal Armor: The Concept of Alke in Archaic Greek Poetry, Derek Collins,
University of Texas at Austin
Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia, M. D. Usher,
Willamette University
Recapturing
Sophocles’ Antigone
Wm. Blake Tyrrell
and
Larry J. Bennett
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Recapturing Sophocles’ Antigone / Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett
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Includes bibliographical references (p. )and index.
ISBN 0-8476-9216-7 (cloth : alk. paper). - ISBN 0-8476-9217-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Sophocles. Antigone. 2. Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature. 3. Tragedy. I. Bennett,
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For our children,
Blake, Jonathon, Jessica, and Sarah
For my mother,
Bernadine M. Bennett
In memory of my beloved nephew, Thomas C. Bennett,
indigne adempti nobis

“All there is to thinking,”he said, “is seeing something noticeable
which makes you see something you weren't noticing which
makes you see something that isn’t even visible.”
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

Contents
Foreword by Gregory Nagy
Preface
Introduction: Insights, Contexts, Methods
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Ismene’s Choice: Prologue (1-99)

Ὁ
The Dust: Parodos and First Episode (100-331)
Ὁ
Ὁ Antigone, Teras: First Stasimon and Second Episode (332-581)
Haemon, Son and Citizen: Second Stasimon
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and Third Episode (582-780)
6. Antigone, Bride of Hades: Third Stasimon
and Fourth Episode (781-943)
7. The Prophet Speaks: Fourth Stasimon and Fifth Episode (994-1114) 123
8. Creon’s Defeat: Fifth Stasimon and Exodos (1115-1352) 137
Bibliography 153
Index 171
About the Authors 177