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Antigone / Efimia D. Karakantza.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karakantza, E. D. (Euphēmia D.), author.
- Series:
- Gods and heroes of the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antigone (Mythological character)--In literature.
- Antigone.
- Sophocles. Antigone.
- Sophocles.
- Antigone (Mythological character).
- Classical literature--History and criticism.
- Classical literature.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Efimia D. Karakantza is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. Her recent focus is on metafeminist and political readings of ancient Greek literature, mainly Greek tragedy. Her latest book, Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus (HUP 2020) explores issues of identity and citizenship in the ancient polis. She is the co-editor of Ancient Necropolitics: Maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Ancient Greece, to be published by Brill (under contract).
- Contents:
- Why Antigone?
- Introducing Antigone
- Key themes
- Sophocles' Antigone as a 'bad' woman
- The divine vs human laws controversy
- Gendered and anti-gendered Antigone
- The politics of lamentation
- Death and posthumanism in Sophocles' Antigone
- Antigone in Rome
- Antigone afterwards
- De-politicizing Antigone: Hegel, Lacan, and beyond
- Re-politicizing Antigone
- From the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century
- War: Antigones in WWII, Nazi Occupation, and Civil-War Greece
- Dispossession: Palestinian Antigone
- Equality: Antigones of many subjectivities in the 21st century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Karakantza, E. D. Antigone
- ISBN:
- 9780429436864
- 0429436866
- 9780429792229
- 0429792220
- 9780429792236
- 0429792239
- 9780429792243
- 0429792247
- Publisher Number:
- 40031515224
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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