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Antigones
  • October 1996
    328 p., 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
    21 b/w illus.
    ISBN: 9780300069150
  • Paper: $34.00 tx
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Antigones

How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought

  • George Steiner
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Reviews

"A remarkable feat of intellectual agility."—Washington Post Book World

"[An] intellectually demanding but rewarding book . . . consistently stimulating and sometimes disturbing."—The New Republic

"An . . . account of the various treatments of the Antigone theme in European languages. . . . Penetrating and novel."—The New York Times Book Review

"A tradition of intelligence and style lives in this prolific man."—Los Angeles Times

"Antigones triumphantly demonstrates that Antigone could fill several volumes of study without becoming tedious or exhausted."—The New York Review of Books

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