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Wm. Blake Tyrrell is professor of classics at Michigan State University and the author of Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking (Johns Hopkins) and, with Frieda S. Brown, Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action (Oxford).
Larry J. Bennett has coauthored articles on the Antigone with William Blake Tyrrell which have appeared in the American Journal of Philology and Classical World.
This book is a contribution to one of the core projects of classical scholarship in recent years: highlighting the importnace of social and political context in the interpretation of ancient works. Tyrrell and Bennett are probably best known for their suggestions about links between <i>Antigone</i> and the Athenian public funerals and funeral orations. In this book they expand on those suggestions, drawing also on particular historical events such as the Samian war, and on other literary texts, such as <i>Iliad</i>, to establish how Antogone's, Creon's, and other characters' attitudes to the burial might have been percieved.
- Hans Van Wees, University College London, Classical Review
The authors' writting is clear, their research thorough, their reading of the text a close one, and their observations generally sound. Anyone intending to pursue scholalry work on any aspect of of the <i>Antigone</i> will surely have to include this work. While the book contains numerous passages in the original Greek, the authors provide translations so that this book would also provide an excellent companion to the play for the Greek-less reader.
Religious Studies Review
This book is valuable.
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
Tyrrell and Bennett's articulation of the tension between these traditional Greek family customs and the importance of state funerals for war dead is their special contribution to the understanding of Sophocles'<i>Antigone</i>. Extensive reference to the Greek text is made in this careful analysis, accessible to advanced undergraduates.
The Classical Outlook
Tyrrell and Bennett's book is a valuable addition to the literature on this fascinatingly complex play and is of use to students of the play at all levels, from the advanced undergraduate to the serious scholar of tragedy and ritual.....
- Martin R. Boyne, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
<p>Tyrrell and Bennett's book is a valuable addition to the<br />literature on this fascinatingly complex play and is of use to students of<br />the play at all levels, from the advanced undergraduate to the serious scholar of tragedy and ritual.</p>
- Martin R. Boyne, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction: Insights, Contexts, Methods
Chapter 4 Ismene's Choice: Prologue (1-99)
Chapter 5 The Dust: Parodos and the First Episode (100-331)
Chapter 6 Antigone, Teras: First Stasimon and Second Episode (332-581)
Chapter 7 Haemon, Son and Citizen: Second Stasimon and Third Episode (582-780)
Chapter 8 Antigone, Bride of Hades: Third Stasimon and Fourth Episode (781-943)
Chapter 9 The Prophet Speaks: Fourth Stasimon and Fifth Episode (994-1114)
Chapter 10 Creon's Defeat: Fifth Stasimon and Exodos (1115-1352)
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 Index
Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium, B.C. to the present-not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the exclusive concern of a single given discipline.
Series Editor: Gregory Nagy, Harvard University. Executive Editors: Corinne Pache, Eirene Visvardi, and Madeleine Goh
Advisory Board: Mary Ebbott, Casey Dué Hackney, Leonard Muellner, Olga Levaniouk, Timothy Powers, Jennifer R. Kellogg, and Ivy Livingston
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Wm. Blake Tyrrell is professor of classics at Michigan State University and the author of Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking (Johns Hopkins) and, with Frieda S. Brown, Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action (Oxford).
Larry J. Bennett has coauthored articles on the Antigone with William Blake Tyrrell which have appeared in the American Journal of Philology and Classical World.