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Private lives, public deaths : Antigone and the invention of individuality /

Here, the author shows how Sophocles' tragedy Antigone crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment - fifth-century Athens - into one idea: the value of a single, living person.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strauss, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Tragedy, the city, and its dead
  • Two orders of individuality
  • The citizen
  • Loss embodied
  • States of exclusion
  • Inventing life
  • Mourning, longing, loving
  • Exit tragedy
  • Appendixes. A : Summary of Sophocles's Labdacid cycle ; B : Timeline of relevant events in ancient Greece.