LOOKING AT ANTIGONE

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original illustrated boards with orange and white titles to the upper board and spine. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with a touch of bumping to the head of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.

A collection of essays by twelve leading academics from across the world drawing together many of the themes explored in Antigone, from Sophocles' use of mythology, his contemporaries' reactions and later reception, to questions of religion and ritual, family life and incest, ecology and the environment. The essays are accompanied by an introduction discussing the nature of the community for which Antigone was written, and David Stuttard's performer-friendly, accurate and easily accessible English translation.