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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone Seamus Heaney, Sophocles ebook
ISBN: 9780374530075
Format: pdf
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page: 88

Antigone buries Polynices in secret, is discovered and condemned by Creon. May 1, 2012 - Author: Sophocles (c 496-406 BC) Translator: Robert Fagles Publisher: Penguin Books (1984 Penguin Classics Edition) Bought from: Book Depository Introduction Sophocles is one of three classical Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Jul 14, 2013 - Antigone, on which The Burial At Thebes is based, is a play about how states infringe on personal liberties in order to ensure that law and order is maintained. Dec 1, 2011 - Antigone is buried alive on orders from her uncle Creon—who is also the father of her betrothed—and who belatedly discovers only too clearly the cost of power. Not much is known about the life of Sophocles. Jan 3, 2014 - Antigone – Sophocles. Three plays means a lot of characters, and ENO fielded an impressively strong cast with Roland Wood He decrees that Polynices, who attacked Thebes, not be given a burial. Sophocles wrote 123 plays but only seven survive intact. Nov 16, 2012 - After the war, Cren decrees his son will be buried for his loyalty to the king and the state, while the rebel son will be left unburied for defying Thebes. Feb 25, 2012 - In the oldest version of the story, the funeral of Polynices takes place during Oedipus' reign in Thebes, however, this is before he marries Jocasta. May 4, 2014 - Anderson and his librettist, playwright Frank McGuinness, have compressed Sophocles' three Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone) into a compactly dramatic two hour opera. Apr 29, 2014 - Sophocles' Theban plays are among the all-time greatest stories in literature, and along with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the great dramatists of the Athenian Golden Age. He is said to have Creon orders Antigone to be buried alive in a cave for disobeying his edict. Some sketchy details have survived and the rest has been gleaned from the 10th century Suda Lexicon, a Greek dictionary and the Sophocles: Life and Works, an anonymous work that was discovered in the Creon, the King of Thebes has decreed that as punishment, Polyneices should be denied the final rites of burial as his body should be left to rot as a lesson to other invaders.