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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Strauss, Jonathan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.