Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought Steiner George
Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought Steiner George According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in…
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Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought Steiner George
According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon--between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old--has captured the Western imagination for more than 2000 years. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide.
He considers its treatment in Western art, literature, and thought--in drama, poetry, prose, philosophic discourse, political tracts, opera, ballet, film, and even the plastic arts. George Steiner here examines the far-reaching legacy of this great classical myth. A study in poetics and in the philosophy of reading, Antigones leads us to look again at the influence the Greek myths exercise on twentieth-century culture.A remarkable feat of intellectual