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Sophocles

translated into English verse by Thomas Francklin; with an introd. by Henry Morley.

Also known as Aiax; Ajax; Antigone

by Sophocles, 496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Kaarlo Koskimies (Translator), Gergely Csiky (Translator), Euripides, Bernardo Segni & Gio. Batista Zannoni

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  • 16th century
  • Languages: Dutch, English, FAO, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Ancient Greek, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, KAN, Latin, Multiple languages, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh
  • Content type: FictionJuvenilePrimary source
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"Antigone" by Sophocles is an Athenian tragedy written in either 442 or 440 BC. When Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, forbids the burial of Polynices—a brother who died fighting for the opposing side in a civil war—his niece Antigone faces an impossible choice. She must decide between obeying her uncle's decree or honoring divine law and family duty by burying her brother. Her defiance sets off a clash between human authority and sacred obligation that threatens to destroy them all. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “folklore”, “mythological”, “Mythology”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “mythological” in the subject metadata and “Mythology” in the subject metadata.

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Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1811-01-01T00:00:00ZFirenze, N. CarliItalian—Public digitized item

Sophocles in single plays for the use of schools: Ajax

1876Clarendon PressEnglish, Ancient Greek—No ebook

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1991Clarendon Press; Oxford University PressEnglish, Greek
  • 9780198148999
  • 0198148992
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  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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  • Open Library reports 188 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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