Jean Anouilh 's Antigone received its first performance in Paris, February 6, 1944 during the Nazi occupation. Sarasota's Asolo Re...

εἷς   γάρ   τις   ἦν   ἕκαστος   οὑξειργασμένος ,  κοὐδεὶς   ἐναργής ,  ἀλλ᾽   ἔφευγε   μὴ   εἰδέναι . (261-2) every man was the culpri...

The third choral ode in the Antigone refers to the house of Oedipus, naming his grandfather, Labdacus: I see that the ancient sorrows of ...

A motif that comes up again and again in Sophocles'  Antigone is a tension between one voice and more than one. It surfaces stylistica...

The arc of the story of Thebes is not complete without the story of the Epigonoi , the sons of the first Seven who returned 10 years after ...

Struggling with the second ode of Sophocles'  Antigone  this week, I came across this, and nearly wept with delight: Many terribly...

ἑπτὰ   λοχαγοὶ   γὰρ   ἐφ᾽   ἑπτὰ   πύλαις   ταχθέντες   ἴσοι   πρὸς   ἴσους   ἔλιπον   Ζηνὶ   τροπαίῳ   πάγχαλκα   τέλη ,  πλὴν   τοῖν ...