Antigone (5th Century B.C.)  Tags: antigone sophocles  

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• Ebrary
  
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Full text of Sophocles' Antigone is available on the Web at:

• Bartleby.com
  
• The Internet Classics Archive
• Northern State University

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Antigone. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• Ancient Greeks: Creating the Classical Tradition
• Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome [vol 1]
• Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 2, 47, 51, 80, 86] - look for Antigone in the Cumulative Title Index, which is located in the latest volume of this multi-volume work
  • [vol 26] - locate the topical essay "Greek Mythology"
    
  • [vol 51] - locate the topical essay "Greek Theater"
• Critical Survey of Drama [vol 6]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 3]
• Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks
• Drama Criticism [vol 1]
• Drama for Students [vol 1, 4]
• Greek and Latin Authors, 800 BC - AD 1000
• Greek Drama
  
• Handbook to Life in Ancient
• Literature and Its Times [vol 1]
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama [vol 4]
• Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World
• Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary
• World Literature and Its Times [vol 8]
  

Conduct a "Subject Browse" search using the Library Catalog for:

• Antigone Greek mythology in literature
• Sophcles
• Greek drama--History and criticism
  

You'll find library materials that provide biographical information about Sophocles, as well criticism and interpretation of his work.

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