Antigone

Sophocles (497 BCE - 406 BCE)
Translated by Francis Storr (1839 - 1919)

This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brother's body and is sentenced to death. She clashes with Creon, the King of Thebes, over what constitutes justice and morality: the laws of the state or the laws of the individual. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Cast:
Antigone: Elizabeth Klett
Ismene: Arielle Lipshaw
Creon: Bruce Pirie
Haemon: mb
Eurydice: Lucy Perry
Tiresias: Martin Geeson
Guard: Algy Pug
Chorus, Second Messenger: Lars Rolander
Messenger: David Goldfarb
Narrator: David Lawrence

Audio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

Genre(s): Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Tragedy

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Part 1 Group 00:42:24
Play 02 Part 2 Group 00:32:03