And Dryas's son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his heart-cutting insults, when, by the will of Dionysus...

Danae, reclining on a couch and grasping her hair ribbons, is impregnated by the god Zeus in the form of a golden shower. Lycurgus...

This is a kind of thought experiment, an attempt to regard the very rich text of the Antigone from just one angle, centered on the figure ...

Jebb, whose translation of Antigone is used by the Perseus edition, has a note on the proclamation speech of Creon. It's the speech by...

Perhaps the first striking thing in Sophocles' Ode to Man  is the disconcerting scale. On one hand, nothing is so wondrously strange as...

The so-called " Ode to Man " -- the second ode in Sophocles' Antigone -- poses a challenge. It is, in effect, an effort to ...