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Antigone
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Antigone

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The tragedy of Oedipus’ daughter - a wise, fearless heroine who shuns society’s laws - from the master Greek dramatist.

‘It’s a dreadful thing to yield…but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That’s dreadful too.’

The remarkable story of Greek tragedy’s most intrepid heroine.

Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin’s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC). Sophocles’s works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays and Electra and Other Plays.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 February 2015
Pages
64
ISBN
9780141397702

The tragedy of Oedipus’ daughter - a wise, fearless heroine who shuns society’s laws - from the master Greek dramatist.

‘It’s a dreadful thing to yield…but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That’s dreadful too.’

The remarkable story of Greek tragedy’s most intrepid heroine.

Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin’s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC). Sophocles’s works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays and Electra and Other Plays.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 February 2015
Pages
64
ISBN
9780141397702

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