Private lives, public deaths : Antigone and the invention of individuality /
Here, the author shows how Sophocles' tragedy Antigone crystallized the political, intellectual, and aesthetic forces of an entire historical moment - fifth-century Athens - into one idea: the value of a single, living person.
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Tragedy, the city, and its dead
- Two orders of individuality
- The citizen
- Loss embodied
- States of exclusion
- Inventing life
- Mourning, longing, loving
- Exit tragedy
- Appendixes. A : Summary of Sophocles's Labdacid cycle ; B : Timeline of relevant events in ancient Greece.
