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Antigone by Sophocles

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Author Biography

Name: Sophocles
Birth Date: 496 B.C.
Death Date: 406 B.C.
Place of Birth: Colonus
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: dramatist

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Biography of Sophocles
5009 words, approx. 16.7 pages
During the fifth century B.C., the Golden Age of Athens, new forms of art and literature were being developed with extraordinary speed and energy. One of the most important of these forms was Tragedy, and the preeminence of Aeschylus. Sophocles, and Euri...
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Biography of Sophocles
4901 words, approx. 16.3 pages
During the fifth century B.C., the Golden Age of Athens, new forms of art and literature were being developed with extraordinary speed and energy. One of the most important of these forms was Tragedy, and the preeminence of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euri...
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Biography of Sophocles
1740 words, approx. 5.8 pages
The Greek tragedian Sophocles (496-406 BC) ranks foremost among Greek classical dramatists and has been called the poet of Greek humanism par excellence. The son of Sophilus, a well-to-do industrialist, Sophocles was born in Colonus near Athens and grew...


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Antigone Summary
3,930 words, approx. 13 pages
Antigone by Sophocles Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) came from a wealthy family in Athens and took an active role in that city-state's political life. He wrote 123 plays, but only seven of them have survived to the present. Antigonc was a huge success for him...
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Antigone Information
3,284 words, approx. 11 pages
Antigone (Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is a tragedy by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. It is chronologically the third of the three Theban plays but was written first.[1] The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it. It picks up where...


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Monarch Notes
Plays of Sophocles: Antigone (441? B.C.)
01/01/1963: 3,557 words, approx. 12 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Antigone (441? B.C.) Background: What other plays were presented with the Antigone and what prizes it won are unknown. The story of Antigone's attempt to bury her brother's body in defiance of Creon's orders is not recorded in extant epic or...
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Western European Stages
Jacques Nichet Directs Sophocles' Antigone
10/01/2004: 3,458 words, approx. 12 pages
Antigone is undoubtedly the Sophoclean play that has inspired the greatest number of imitations and interpretations in European dramatic literature. It is based on one of the most important Greek myths. Jacques Nichet, director of the Théâtre National de Toulouse, has just staged a...
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Tireless on the Left, The Great I.F. Stone
9/10/2006: 1,538 words, approx. 5 pages
Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the government and ignored by the respectable press. By the time...
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The New York Observer
Tireless on the Left, The Great I.F. Stone
9/10/2006: 1,539 words, approx. 5 pages
Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the government and ignored by the respectable press. By the time...
 


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Does the Outcome of the Antigone Suggest That Creon Was Wrong from the Start?
2,913 words, approx. 10 pages
Sophocles' Antigone is, at its simplest, a tragedy of conflict and misunderstandings. In the play, the laws of the gods are set up against the laws of man, and the two appear irreconcilable as the values are upheld by the equally opposing characters of Creon and Antigone. The following essay examines the characters of Creon and Antigone and the factors that drive them to do what they do.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Feminism in Antigone
2,010 words, approx. 7 pages
Annotated bibliography on feminism in "Antigone."
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Essay Grade: 92%
Antigone Then and Now
1,836 words, approx. 6 pages
Compares versions of the Sophocles play, Antigone. Contrasts the classical Thomas Bulfinch translation with the more modern Jean Anouilh version.
 


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