Antigone (Paperback, New ed)

Preface, P.E. Easterling General Introduction, P.E. Easterling Antigone: introduction, Ruby Blondell Preface, R.C.Jebb INTRODUCTION § I. Earliest trace of the story. § 2. Aeschylean situation contrast with the Sophoclean. § 3 Analysis of the play. § 4 Unity of motive. The mode of the catastrophe. The dramatic blemish. § 5 A suggested explanation. § 6. The question raised by the play. § 7 What is the moral intended ? § 8. The character of Creon's edict. § 9 The edict in its political aspect. § 10. Antigone's position. § I I. The attitude of the Chorus. § I2. Why the Chorus is so constituted. § I3. The character of Antigone. § I4. Distinctive merit of the portraiture. § IS The character of Creon. § I 6. Other treatments of the story. Euripides. Attius. Statius. Alfieri. § I7 Vase-paintings. § I8. Mendelssohn's music. § I9 Date of the play. The strategia of Sophocles. § 20. Had the play any bearing upon the poet's appointment? § 2I. Internal evidence for an early date. § 22. Place of the play in the series of the poet's works. § 23. The Theban plays-not properly a trilogy. MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONS, etc. § I. The Laurentian MS. (L). Other MSS. § 2. Readings due to the Scholia. § 3 Points bearing on the relation of L to the other MSS. § 4 The MSS. versus ancient citations. § S Interpolation. § 6. Emendations. § 7 Editions, etc. METRICAL ANALYSIS ANCIENT ARGUMENTS TO THE PLAY j DRAMATIS PERSONAE; STRUCTURE APPENDIX INDICES