Private Lives, Public Deaths : Antigone and the Invention of Individuality /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strauss, Jonathan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sophocles. > Antigone.
Antigone (Sophocles)
Tragedie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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