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Section 1: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • “Greece and the Theater,” from The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus, Robert Fagles, Penguin Random House, 1982
    • “How Greek Drama Saved the City,” Daniel Mendelsohn, The Wylie Agency, 2016
    • “Sophocles,” Mark Cartwright, World History Encyclopedia, 2013
    • “Women in Classical Greece,” Collette Hemingway, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014
  • Multimedia
    • “Antigone: Additional Background Information,” Dr. David Steiner, Odell Education HSLP, 2020
    • Excerpts from “The Story of Antigone: A Play, a Text, a Myth for All Times,” Dr. Evelyne Ender and Dr. David Steiner, Odell Education, 2020
  • Digital Access
    • “Antigone Trailer,” Theatre Royal Stratford East, Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2015
    • “‘Antigone’: Family versus State,” National Theatre, National Theatre, 2013
    • “‘Antigone’: The Ancient Greek Chorus,” National Theatre, National Theatre, 2013
    • “The Battle of the Greek Tragedies,” Melanie Sirof, TedEd, 2015
  • Tradebook
    • Antigone, Sophocles (translated by Robert Fagles), Penguin Books, 1984