Antigone (/ænˈtɪɡəni/ ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at...
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same name. The story of Antigone was addressed by the fifth-century BC Greek playwright Sophocles in his Theban plays: Antigone and her sister Ismene are...
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was sometimes defeated by Sophocles; Euripides won four. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known...
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Antigone, also known as The Antigone of Sophocles, is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin's translation of Sophocles' tragedy...
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Oedipus Rex (category Plays by Sophocles)
Press. p. 143. ISBN 9780674821408. Hall, E. (1994). "Introduction". Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra. Oxford University Press. pp. xix–xxii...
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Greek tragedy, Antigone by Sophocles, which is a classic tale of how unbending hubris destroys all who fall prey to its spell. Another Antigone is the same...
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The Island (play) (category Modern adaptations of Antigone (Sophocles play))
their cell for a performance of Sophocles' Antigone in front of the other prisoners. One takes the part of Antigone, who defies the laws of the state...
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La Thébaïde (category Plays based on Antigone (Sophocles play))
inexperienced, drew particularly from the Antigone of Sophocles, the Phoenician Women of Euripides, but especially the Antigone of Jean Rotrou and the tragedies...
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Ajax (play) (redirect from Sophocles' Ajax)
Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias (/ˈeɪdʒæks/ or /ˈaɪ.əs/; Ancient Greek: Αἴας [a͜í.aːs], gen. Αἴαντος), is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. Ajax...
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The Burial at Thebes (category Plays based on Antigone (Sophocles play))
version of Sophocles' Antigone is a play by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, based on the fifth century BC tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It is also...
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in a painting called “Antigone 3000” inspired by the Greek myth, and specifically a phrase in Sophocles's play where Antigone confronts her uncle Creon—the...
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Welcome to Thebes (category Plays based on Antigone (Sophocles play))
fortunes there. The play draws its plot on Polynices' burial from Sophocles' Antigone, though it substitutes Creon's widow Eurydice for Creon. Theseus...
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Jocasta (category Articles needing additional references from August 2010)
both traditions, Oedipus gouges out his eyes; Sophocles has Oedipus go into exile with his daughter Antigone, but Euripides and Statius have him residing...
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Seven against Thebes (section Antigone)
516 Sophocles, Antigone 141–147. Sophocles, Antigone 127–140. Sophocles, Antigone 21–38. Hard, pp. 322–323; Gantz, p. 520; Sophocles, Antigone 45–99...
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mentioned in Sophocles's Antigone where, as Antigone is marched toward her death, she compares her own loneliness to that of Niobe. Sophocles is said to...
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Sinfonía de Antígona (category Works based on Antigone (Sophocles play))
Chávez composed for a production of Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, given by the group Teatro Orientación at the Palacio de Bellas...
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Odysseus Acanthoplex (category Plays by Sophocles)
had a diptych form, i.e., in two parts, analogous to Sophocles' extant Ajax, Trachiniae and Antigone. Sutton speculated that the play partially unfolded...
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Ship of State (category Articles needing additional references from August 2012)
249), and it is also found in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles' Antigone and Aristophanes' Wasps before Plato. During the Renaissance Sebastian...
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ten ancient Greek tragedies – one by Aeschylus (Agamemnon), two by Sophocles (Antigone, Electra), and seven by Euripides (Alcestis, Hecuba, Herakles, Hippolytus...
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of the wine god. There is a further reference to Lycurgus in Sophocles' Antigone in the Chorus's ode after Antigone is taken away (960 in the Greek text)...
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Jonathan Hyde (category All articles lacking reliable references)
Sleep With Me (NT Cottesloe, 1999) Creon opposite Tara Fitzgerald in Sophocles's Antigone (Declan Donnellan, Old Vic, 1999) Archie in Stoppard's Jumpers (David...
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Tereus (play) (redirect from Tereus (Sophocles))
relationship between the sisters. Sophocles used the relationship between sisters in two of his surviving tragedies Antigone (Antigone/Ismene) and Electra (Electra/Chrysothemis)...
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Greek tragedy (section The reforms of Sophocles)
presented by actors. The most acclaimed Greek tragedians are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. These tragedians often explored many themes of human nature...
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Greek chorus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
accompaniments to their own tragedies or had accompaniments commissioned, and Sophocles accompanied at least one of his plays on the cithara, an ancient lyre-like...
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themes of political protest, state brutality, and heroism, based on Sophocles' play Antigone; a Greek tragedy transposed to a modern village in the Amazon....
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absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's...
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Charles Jalabert (category Articles needing additional references from September 2014)
Plague of Thebes, and other famous works of Jalabert's, like Oedipus and Antigone, are now on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes. Selected art...
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Dionysus—was also possibly associated with cultic ritual at Delphi. Sophocles' Antigone, referring to nocturnal rites occurring on Mount Parnassus above...
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productions by her master, Jonas Vaitkus. She portrayed Antigone in the production of Sophocles' play, played Shelly in the Buried Child, and several Shakespearean...
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Le «Philétæros» attribué à Hérodien (1954) Tragédies de Sophocle, I: Les Trachiniennes, Antigone (1955); II: Ajax, Œdipe Roi, Électre (1958); III: Philoctète...
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