The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone



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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone Seamus Heaney, Sophocles ebook
Page: 88
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780374530075


We see Antigone in great pains in the beginning of the story. Mar 29, 2011 - Antigone's speeches are literally the first declaration of universal human rights in Western history; by having Antigone bury Polynices, Sophocles is putting her in the role of the Athenian state itself – one of the most cherished Athenian myths was the story of how Athens marched on Thebes not to conquer it but to compel the honorable burial of its enemies (the world's first international humanitarian intervention). State's uncontrolled power that regulates everything even the burial of a brother who is accused to be a traitor for the state, is criticized here by Sophocles. With The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles' Antigone, Heaney once again shifts the emphasis away from the central character to tackle the moral questions at the heart of all of Sophocles' plays—the relationship between individual and society, family and state. Just prior Creon decrees that Eteocles will have a hero's burial with all honours. Sep 25, 2012 - This play by Sophocles contains 2 strong characters: Antigone and her uncle Creon, former regent and now ruler of Thebes. Has much more sympathy for Antigone from the overall text. Sep 13, 2010 - In the story, we see that Antigone's brothers Eteocles and Polynices fall down in a war but the king of Thebes, Creon, does not allow a funeral for Polynices whom he accuses as being a traitor. Both make clear, if coded, reference to contemporary Irish political life. May 31, 2008 - Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney has tried his hand at translating from the Greek before, authoring a version of Sophocles' tragedy Philoctetes in 1990 under the title The Cure at Troy. His version of Philoctetes by Sophocles.





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