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

I also came A furious Creon condemns Antigone to be buried alive, letting the gods dispose of her as they will. 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. Jan 6, 2011 - The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' play Antigone. I read it for my December World Party Reading Challenge book, for which the country was Greece. Upon her arrival in Eteocles has been given a proper burial, but Creon, Antigone's uncle who has inherited the throne, has issued a royal edict banning the burial of Polyneices, who he believes was a traitor. Dec 20, 2013 - SOPHOCLES: Antigone “Antigone and her sister decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, avoid a prophecy that predicts they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes. 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. "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's retelling of "Antigone" a play written two-and-a-half thousand years ago by Sophocles. 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. Oct 8, 2011 - The Burial at Thebes is a translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Irish poet Seamus Haeney. Oct 3, 2011 - Heaney believes that tension between speech and silence is central to the play. In Greek mythology, Antigone is a daughter of Oedipus (you remember him - the one who killed his father and married his mother).