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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
What is the connection between individual freedom and social and political authority? Are human beings fundamentally equal or unequal? In 16 in-depth lectures, Professor Dalton puts the key theories of power formulated by several of history's greatest minds within your reach. These lectures trace two distinct schools of political theory, idealism and realism, from their roots in ancient India and Greece through history and, ultimately, to their impact...
10) Antigone
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Language
English
Description
"Presents a modern interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone and includes explanatory notes on the text and mythological content." --
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English
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To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King or Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up...
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This anthology volume offers a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago's nine-volume Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authorative, critically accaimed editions have been the preferred choice of readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use. the third edition updates the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A film shoot by a world-famous director ends in disaster. It is a movie of Sophocles' Antigone and it is being shot in Pandaemonium, a town in Nevada, by Rudolf von Beckmann, a tyrant. The actor who narrates describes what happens when a director has too much power. By the author of Pinto and Sons.