Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone

In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles'' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. As they contextualize the play in the dynamics of ancient Athens, the authors d...