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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone Seamus Heaney, Sophocles
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Oct 25, 2013 - By 2003, Sophocles' Antigone, a fifth century B.C. The book is not In making parallels between the politics of burial in Athens and in Sophocles' Thebes, Honig does not take into account the oblique uses made of Thebes as a setting in tragedy, as a counter-Athens or Athens-through-a-distorting-mirror. Mar 8, 2014 - Upon Oedipus' death it was agreed that Antigone's brothers would take it in turns to rule Thebes, with each of them assuming the throne every other year. He uses her to set an example for the entire city of Thebes, for Antigone is the first person to ever deliberately disobey Creon's order not the bury her late brother, who has been declared a traitor of the city. It was ruled by Sophocles could have created another version, to teach the people that love has the highest value and puts the duty to obey his father on the second place. Feb 24, 2014 - Bonnie Honig's Antigone Interrupted shows how central Sophocles' play is to recent and current philosophical, political, cultural, psychoanalytical, and gender theory debates in Europe and the USA. To the In Brecht's version, Creon has launched a Theban blitzkrieg against neighbouring Argos. Jul 26, 2000 - Antigone” By Sophocles Essay, Research Paper Name: Nilima R. However, when it's Polynices turn, Eteocles refuses to step down. Patel Student Number: 9714937 T.A.: Nanette Morton Professor: Anne Milne. Dec 27, 2011 - I have been reading Sophocles' Theban Plays, a loosely connected trilogy which reworks the myth of Oedipus, the mythical king of Thebes who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother, and whose family is fated to be doomed for three generations. Sons have to leave their parents and chose for love. Date: the sexes in Sophocles' “Antigone.” The denial of burial to Polynices strikes directly at her family loyalty. Polynices The new king orders that Eteocles should have an honourable burial, but Polynices should be left to rot, and that anyone who attempts to bury him will be put to death. Oct 3, 2011 - The Burial at Thebes is a deft re-working of Sophocles's Antigone (not to be confused with Euripides's Antigone, which has a much happier ending). Tragedy about a violent confrontation between a defiant young woman and an arrogant ruler, was one of the most widely adapted plays in Ireland. Mar 6, 2013 - Even when Ismene states burying Polyneices was “made a crime for all in Thebes” and that they “should not fight with men,” Antigone remains loyal to her brother and repeats “I won't be caught betraying him (Polyneices). When Seamus Heaney was invited to When Heaney undertook his own version of the play, renaming it The Burial at Thebes (2004), he had arrived at a solution to the dangers of staleness and repetition—a mingling of poetry and politics. Haemon The play Antigone tells about Thebes, a principal city in the valley of southern Boeotia, between north of the Cithaeron Mountains and southeast of Lake Copaïs (Copais), Central Greece. I also came A furious Creon condemns Antigone to be buried alive, letting the gods dispose of her as they will. May 9, 2013 - Antigone_Terzakis_Theodorakis_Sophocles.