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Private lives, public deaths : Antigone and the invention of individuality / Jonathan Strauss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strauss, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- Greek drama (Tragedy).
- Sophocles. Antigone.
- Sophocles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here, Jonathan Strauss 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-5133-0
- 0-8232-5295-7
- 0-8232-5134-9
- OCLC:
- 846997954
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