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Sophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality. She provides an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and the edition includes an essay by director Karen Libman. Antigone begins after Oedipus and Jocasta's sons have killed each other in battle over the kingship. The new king, Kreon, decrees that the brother who attacked with a foreign army remain unburied and promises death to anyone who defies him. The play centers on Antigone's refusal to obey Kreon's law and Kreon's refusal to allow her brother's burial. Each acts on principle colored by gender, personality and family history. Antigone poses a conflict between passionate characters whose extreme stances leave no room for compromise. The highly charged struggle between the individual and the state has powerful implications for ethical and political situations today.

Mythology, Greek. --- Greek mythology --- Antigone --- Antígona --- Antygona --- 安提戈涅 --- アンティゴネー --- אנטיגונה --- 안티고네 --- Антигона --- Антыгона --- Антігона --- أنتيجون --- Ἀντιγόνη --- Antigone (Greek mythology)

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Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems, fragments, single words - and, notably, five stanzas of a poem that came to light in 2014. Also included are new additions to five fragments from the latest discovery, and a nearly complete poem published in 2004. The power of Sappho's poetry - her direct style, rich imagery, and passion - is apparent even in these remnants. Diane Rayor's translations of Greek poetry are graceful and poetic, modern in diction yet faithful to the originals. The full range of Sappho's voice is heard in these poems about desire, friendship, rivalry, family, and 'passion for the light of life'. In the introduction and notes, internationally respected Sappho scholar André Lardinois presents plausible reconstructions of Sappho's life and work, the importance of the recent discoveries in understanding the performance of her songs, and the story of how these fragments survived.

Greek poetry --- Poésie grecque --- Translations into English. --- Traductions anglaises --- Sappho --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie grecque --- Greek poetry - Translations into English --- Sappho - Translations into English --- Greek poetry. --- Sappho. --- Greek literature --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Sapfo --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Sapho --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos