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In addition, unlike the poetry of the Trojan cycle, there is no prose summary. The Oedipodea: There are a total of 6,600 verses, which different sources attribute to Cinaethon of Sparta. [1] It is treated as the opening poem of the Theban Cycle. The Thebaid: contains 7,000 verses, also known as Thebais or the Cyclic Thebaid. It is an ancient ...
[4] Men in the Off Hours includes two personal pieces about the author's parents. Carson's father Robert had Alzheimer's disease, and the poem "Father's Old Blue Cardigan" deals with his mental decline. Carson closes the collection with the prose piece "Appendix to Ordinary Time", using crossed-out phrases from the diaries and manuscripts of ...
A short example from R. C. Jebb's translation of Antigone: the scene is an argument between Ismene and her sister Antigone. For further examples from Antigone, consult the text at the Internet Classics Archive . ISMENE: And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee? ANTIGONE: Ask Creon; all thy care is for him.
Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ἀντιγόνη) is a play by the Attic dramatist Euripides, which is now lost except for a number of fragments. According to Aristophanes of Byzantium , the plot was similar to that of Sophocles ' play Antigone , with three differences.
Antigone, Op. 55, MWV M 12, is a suite of incidental music written in 1841 by Felix Mendelssohn to accompany the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, staged by Ludwig Tieck.The text is based on Johann Jakob Christian Donner's German translation of the text, with additional assistance from August Böckh.
In the original opening scene of Mallrats, while at the 37th Annual Governor's Ball, T.S., dressed as a Revolutionary Soldier for a musical at the event, gets a musket tied up in Brandi's hair while on the roof of the high school where the event is being held. The governor's security believe it's an assassination attempt and the event turns ...
Creon, Antigone's uncle and newly appointed King of Thebes, buries Eteocles, who fought on the Theban side of the war, hailing him as a great hero. He refuses to bury Polyneices, proclaiming that any who attempt to defy his wishes will be made an example of, on the grounds that he was a 'traitor' fighting on the opposing side in the war.
While Aeschylus wrote his play to end with somber mourning for the dead brothers, it now contains an ending that serves as a lead-in of sorts to Sophocles' play: a messenger appears, announcing a prohibition against burying Polynices; his sister Antigone, however, announces her intention to defy this edict.