Private Lives, Public Deaths : : Antigone and the Invention of Individuality /

Private Lives, Public Deaths : : Antigone and the Invention of Individuality / / Jonathan Strauss.

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In Private Lives, Public Deaths, Jonathan Strauss 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. That idea existed, however, only as a powerfu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Strauss, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 1 Illustration, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Greek Transliterations
  • Introduction: Tragedy, the City, and Its Dead
  • 1. Two Orders of Individuality
  • 2. The Citizen
  • 3. Loss Embodied
  • 4. States of Exclusion
  • 5. Inventing Life
  • 6. Mourning, Longing, Loving
  • 7. Exit Tragedy
  • Appendix A: Summary of Sophocles’s Labdacid Cycle
  • Appendix B: Timeline of Relevant Events in Ancient Greece
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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