Antigone

Author: Sophocles

Classical texts

Published on 26 February 2015 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Little Black Classics' series.

Paperback | 64 pages
161 x 111 x 6 | 54g

'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?That's dreadful too.'The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.

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Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC). Sophocles's works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays and Electra and Other Plays.