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Informationen zum Autor Sir Richard Clavarhouse Jebb , Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era. His editions of Sophocles' had a profound influence on subsequent scholarship. P.E. Easterling is Fellow of Newnham College, and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, UK. She is general editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. Ruby Blondell is Professor of Classics in the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and translator of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus , Antigone and King Oedipus . Klappentext In this set! each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling! concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for--and contrast with--subsequent interpretations! for which a select bibliography is included. Vorwort A fine example of one of R.C. Jebb's editions of Sophocles' plays, with literary and dramatic interpretations and translations that face the Greek text. Zusammenfassung This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, now reprinted in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with the editor and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.This is an fine example of one of R.C. Jebb's respected editions of Sophocles' plays, originally appearing in the last years of the 19th century. He gives literary and dramatic interpretations and translations that face the Greek text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, P.E. EasterlingGeneral Introduction, P.E. EasterlingAntigone: introduction, Ruby BlondellPreface, R.C.JebbINTRODUCTION § I. Earliest trace of the story. § 2. Aeschylean situation contrast with the Sophoclean.§ 3 Analysis of the play. § 4 Unity of motive. The mode of the catastrophe. The dramatic blemish. § 5 A suggested explanation.§ 6. The question raised by the play. § 7 What is the moral intended ?§ 8. The character of Creon's edict. § 9 The edict in its political aspect. § 10. Antigone's position. § I I. The attitude of the Chorus. § I2. Why the Chorus is so constituted.§ I3. The character of Antigone. § I4. Distinctive merit of theportraiture.§ IS The character of Creon.§ I 6. Other treatments of the story. Euripides. Attius. Statius.Alfieri. § I7 Vase-paintings. § I8. Mendelssohn's music.§ I9 Date of the play. The strategia of Sophocles. § 20. Had the play any bearing upon the poet's appointment? § 2I. Internal evidence for an early date. § 22. Place of the play in the seriesof the poet's works.§ 23. The Theban plays-not properly a trilogy.MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONS, etc. § I. The Laurentian MS. (L). Other MSS. § 2. Readings due to the Scholia. § 3 Points bearing on the relation of L tothe other MSS. § 4 The MSS. versus ancient citations. § S Interpolation.§ 6. Emendations. § 7 Editions, etc.METRICAL ANALYSIS ANCIENT ARGUMENTS TO THE PLAY j DRAMATIS PERSONAE;STRUCTURE APPENDIXINDICES...
