The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Seamus HeaneyThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this p...

Reducere. This new translation of Sophocles' Antigone, one of the cornerstones of Ancient Greek Tragedy, is meant to satisfy several parameters: (i) above al...

Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation - Diane J. Rayor

Reducere. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now avai...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three pl...

DescriptionThe timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles--Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--have fascinated and moved audiences an...

Reducere. The three Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, stand at the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Even today they hold audiences t...

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama...

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone - together these tell the tragic story of Oedipus the ...

Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-...

DescriptionThe gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city rav...

Reducere. DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeff...

Reducere. Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthologyPablo Picasso is arguably the most ...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus,...

Reducere. DescriptionOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he ...

Reducere. One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between indiv...

Reducere. From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels--published in an omnibus edition for the first time--that form an ancient-Egyptian...

DescriptionSophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Zinnie Harris's new version of Strindberg's nineteenth-century masterpiece, Miss Julie, relocates the play to central Scotland between the wars. Th...

Reducere. Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie is not a translation of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie but a version of it, moving the action from the original ...

Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's tra...

Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon, " translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound, " translated by David...

Reducere. In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attendi...

Reducere. DescriptionAntigone...Date de l'edition originale: 1843Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d une uvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d une colle...

Reducere. DescriptionCharles Lenox, Member of Parliament, sets sail on a clandestine mission for the government. When an officer is savagely murdered, howeve...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

"Antigone, " the first Theban play written by Sophocles yet chronologically last in the cycle, is a masterpiece of classical antiquity which examin...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Sophocles II contains the plays "Ajax, " translated by John Moore; "The Women of Trachis, " translated by Michael Jameson; "Electra, " translated b...

Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheCompl...

The new adaptation of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, from bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s)...

Reducere. The Thebaid, a Latin epic in twelve books by Statius (c. 45-96 C. E.) reexamines events following the abdication of Oedipus, focusing on the civil ...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): SophoclesIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 194Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 246 x...

Ancient Athens produced three great tragic writers - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the three Sophocles has in many ways remained the most ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: TynanOur willpower is limited, yet we rely on it every day to get our tasks done. Even if we build willpower slowly over ti...

The spectacular conclusion to the Egyptian epic begun in A God Against the Gods. After his brother's assassination, a new Pharaoh must take the thr...

Called by Plutarch 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors, ' Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the fir...