Sophocles

my first introduction to the notion that good people, serving legitimate ends, might come into irretrievable conflict with the state, and that they might be destroyed as a result. --Howard Frazier, The Harvard guide to influential books: 113 distinguished Harvard professors discuss the books that have helped to shape their thinking (1986), edited by C. Maury Devine, Kim D. Parrish, and Claudia Dissell, p. 82, on Antigone


The end of Ajax shows us a world where there are no real heroes left--or, rather, where heroism and courage have to be reinvented as mental qualities rather than physical ones. --Emily Wilson, Bright Oblivion, by Emily Wilson, The Nation, July 21, 2008, review of Ajax, by Sophocles, translated by John Tipton

Modern 'Antigone' puts words first: Ensemble highlights disasters of pride, folly, by Tom Strini, review of production by Present Music and Milwaukee Dance Theatre, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 7, 2008

Setting their sights on 'Antigone' by Tom Strini, preview of production by Present Music and Milwaukee Dance Theatre, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 3, 2008

Red Thebes, Blue Thebes review by Garry Wills of The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney, New York Times, December 5, 2004

Antigone's Flaw by Patricia M. Lines, Humanitas 1999 No. 1