Introduction
<Insert text here>
Background Information:
Biographical
<text>
Historical
<text>
Cultural
<text>Images
Antigone (right) and Ismene 1 Tiresias (standing), the seer in the play 2
A depiction of Antigone being caught after burying Polynices' body 3
Thesis Articles
Below you will find a collection of summaries of thesis articles which are relevant to this work. Please click the link corresponding to the article summary you wish to view. The original journal articles are also included for the reader's convenience and further exploration.
1. "Sophocles, Antigone 23-5 and the Burial of Eteocles" - C.W. Willink
2. "Similarities Between Antigone and Martin Luther King, Jr: 'An Unjust Law Is No Law At all'" - Lewis A. Sussman
3. "Polis and Tragedy in the Antigone" - Philip Holt
4. "Antigone's Changed Punishment: Gynaecology as Penlolgy in Sophocles' Antigone" - Frances B. Singh
Links
Feel free to browse the following links for more information related to Sophocles' Antigone:
http://www.freshwaterseas.com/plays/antigone/antigone.htm- An abridged, modernized rendition of the play, complete with pictures of key scenes
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/sophocles/antigone.htm#text12
- An alternate translation of the text, with numerous footnotes
http://www.mechthildharkness.net/page/Antigone
- An interesting site documenting the solo performance of Antigone by Mechthild Harkness in the 1950s
http://www.loho10002.com/wordpress/?p=788
- A sidewalk rendition of the play, proving that anywhere can be a stage
http://www.spartanpride.org/webpages/djantziclark/files/family%20tree.doc
- This may help with understanding Antigone's ancestry
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/mandela.htm
- Talks about a 1960s rendition of Antigone, with Creon being played by the most unlikely person
Sources
1. Photo retrieved fromhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Images/aim/antigone2PR.jpg
2. Photo retrieved from
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/
Johann_Heinrich_F%C3%BCssli_063.jpg/
300px-Johann_Heinrich_F%C3%BCssli_063.jpg
3. Photo retrieved from
http://www.mainlesson.com/books/church/tragedians/zpage088.gif
Credits
- Site designed by Drew Fichtel and LaToya Stevens for ENGL 2111 group project.- Information furnished by all members of the group - LaToya Stevens, Drew Fichtel, Jessica Averitt, and Sean Kennedy.
