Neither Sensible, Nor Moderate: Revisiting the Antigone by Theodore Koulouris

“…In this essay, I try to conceptualise meaningful forms of resistance in the present by revisiting Sophocles’ Antigone, one of the most important texts of western literary tradition. …”
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On Pasolini’s Edipo Re: an overview with a focus on two neglected details. Unconscious, will, chance and destiny = Édipo Rei, de Pasolini: uma análise focalizando dois itens pouco... by Rosanna Lauriola

“…The present study aims at re-analyzing two specific aspects of Pasolini’s cinematic staging of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex that seem to have received little attention. …”
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Poisonous ‘Growths’ in <i>Trachiniae</i> by A. A. Long

“…--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">The <em>threma</em> of the Hydra at Sophocles <em>Trach. </em>574 does not mean poison, but poison is rather the “offspring” of the Hydra, and this supports restoring the word at line 837.…”
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A violência secreta da linguagem: Édipo Rei à luz da tradução hölderliniana. by Kathrin Holzermayr Lerrer Rosenfield

“…This article deals with the multiple webs of signs composing Sophocles´s text. Hölderlin showed that there are, apart from the metaphorical sistem open to comprehension, chains of images and sensorial signs which resist exhaustive explantation. …”
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Sobre Hermenêutica, Direito e Literatura: Itinerários filosóficos, políticos e jurídicos de Antígona by Caio Henrique Lopes Ramiro, Tiago Clemente Souza

“…In this article we will deal primarily to investigate some possible political and legal issues of relevant interest for the construction of legal knowledge within the philosophical universe of Antigone, Sophocles' famous work. The effort of reflection will focus on coping unfinished between natural law and positive and what are the reasons and political consequences that could possibly be identified within the text of this classic of world literature.…”
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Different appropriations of greek tragedy in contemporary drama: Irish and otherwise by Munira Hamud Mutran

“…With the support of some versions which take Sophocles' Antigone as a point of departure, this essay reflects on the process of rewriting a classic. …”
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New Fragments of Ancient Greek Poetry by Mark Naoumides

“…--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">The mss. of the <em>Lexicon Cyrilli</em> yield fragments of Ion, Sophocles, an Alcaeus, Antimachus, Hipponax, Theopompus Comicus, and some anonymi, and help to clarify the relation of this text with other lexica.…”
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Philoctetes and the Good Companion Story by Arthur W. Frank

“…The idea of a companion story is developed through an analysis of Sophocles’ play Philoctetes, about living in chronic pain. …”
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Anthropological perspectives on Myth by Aleksandar Boskovic

“…They have recorded and presented history, expounded philosophical ideas and moral values (Plato, Sophocles, Aeschylus), as well as provided patterns for interpreting language, (Müller), psychology (Freud, Rank, Jung) and structure (Lévi-Strauss, Greimas). …”
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Amara è la giustizia di Radamante. Carlo Michelstaedter e l’antica discordia tra poesia e filosofia by David Micheletti

“…Michelstaedter justapoxes names such as Parmenides, Sophocles, Socrates, Christ and the Ecclesiastes in an anti-genealogical manner, that is against fathers and masters as well as sons and disciples. …”
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Conflicted fatherhood in Greek tragedy by Brindley, G

“…Chapter 6 explores the competing representations of a specific father in Sophocles’ <em>Ajax</em>, and the impassioned conflict over the duties of fatherhood more generally in Euripides’ <em>Alcestis</em>, before culminating in an extensive examination of contested fatherhood in Euripides’ <em>Orestes</em>. …”

Un processo ad Antigone. “The Island” di Athol Fugard, John Kani e Winston Ntshona by Chiara Rolli

“…No play of the ancient world has been revived, revised, or rewritten for performance as often in modern times as Sophocles’ Antigone. This study focuses on one of the most renowned African refigurations of the Greek tragedy, The Island by Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona. …”
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Second Thoughts in Greek Tragedy by Bernard M. W. Knox

“…--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Changes of mind in Aeschylus and Sophocles are confined to secondary characters or issues, or reflect compulsion or weakness; Euripides broke this mold, rejecting the old ideal of heroic <em>physis</em>.…”
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Amour et poésie dans La tumba de Antígona de María Zambrano by Margherita Camozzi

“…La tumba de Antígona is, in fact, in an in-between, "at the intersection of literary recreation" palimpsest Sophocles, and its philosophical interpretation. The logos of this Antigone is singular, not rational. …”
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QUO VADIS? A ÉTICA PSICANALÍTICA PARA ALÉM DE ROMA by Mariana Rodrigues Festucci Ferreira

“…For this purpose, it starts from Aristotle's concept of Ethics and then it points out what is at stake in Lacan's reading of Sophocles' play. The tragic nature of psychoanalytic ethics is here highlighted along with its relevance to rescue the contemporary subject from deletion…”
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. by Irmtrud König

“…From a comparative viewpoint this article examines the intertextuality between Griselda Gambaro's play, Antigona Furiosa and the Antigona of Sophocles, by exploring the author's procedure to re-signify the myth from the Argentine (and Latin American) experience of dictatorship. …”
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<b>Different appropriations of greek tragedy in contemporary drama: Irish and otherwise</b><br> by Munira Hamud Mutran

“…With the support of some versions which take Sophocles' Antigone as a point of departure, this essay reflects on the process of rewriting a classic. …”
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Taking One’s Bow: Performing Things in Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy by Kerry-Jane Wallart

“…A version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney’s A Cure at Troy explores the ways in which a bow, a mere thing, introduces and allows tragedy. …”
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Hector’s death and the reception of the Iliad in Euripides’ Andromache and Trojan women by Christian Werner

“…<p>Although Euripides is known by the ways he used elements of the <em>Odyssey </em>to depart from the “classical” model developed by Sophocles, this paper dwells on different strategies employed by him to engage the audience of his plays with the <em>Iliad</em>, this other canonical poem <em>par excellence </em>in Athens. …”
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AFK: reclaiming the holy through art by Torgeir Fjeld

“…As an arch-example of mob logic the myth and Sophocles' play serve to gloss over a brutal and ritualistic sacrifice by claiming that it was the victim who acted in violation of the law; according to Girard the charges against king Oedipus were retroactively invented to justify the initial act of expulsion. …”
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