Sophocles 
Antigone [EPUB ebook] 
A New Translation

The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens Sophocless seven surviving worksin vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays Harper Perennial has published as beautifully designed, stand-alone editions.Powerfully portraying the clash between civic and familial dutybetween morality and obedience Antigonebrings the Oedipus Cycle to a conclusion with the story of the tragic hero’s eldest daughter Antigone, who courts her own death by defying the edict of Thebes’s new ruler, her uncle Kreon, which forbids giving her dishonored brother a proper burial. This is Sophocles, vibrant and alive, for a new generation.