{"product_id":"antigone-9780195143102","title":"Antigone","description":"Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReginald Gibbons\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of nine volumes of poems, including \u003cem\u003eSparrow: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIt's Time and Fern-Texts\u003c\/em\u003e. With Charles Segal he has also translated Euripides' \u003cem\u003eBakkhai\u003c\/em\u003e. He teaches at Northwestern University. The late \u003cstrong\u003eCharles Segal\u003c\/strong\u003e was Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His many books include \u003cem\u003eSophocles' Tragic World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50652100559122,"sku":"9780195143102","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65500430-e3ba-4468-8d8c-acad150ab3db.jpg?v=1767093787","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/antigone-9780195143102","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}