Bibliography for the Study of Antigone

Bowra, C. M. Sophoclean Tragedy. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1944, 1947. [VMI]

Daniels, Charles B., and Sam Scully. What Really Goes on in Sophocles' Theban Plays. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996. [W&L]

Firestone, H. M. S. A Study of Character: the Antigone Motif in Sophocles, Anouilh & Brecht. 1981. [W&L]

Goheen, Robert F. The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone: A Study of Poetic Language and Structure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951. [W&L]

Hogan, James C. A Commentary on the Plays of Sophocles. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. [W&L]

Kamerbeek, J. C. The Antigone; Part 3 of The Plays of Sophocles: Commentaries. 7 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1963-1984. [W&L]

Knox, Bernard. The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. [VMI]

O'Brien, Joan V. Guide to Sophocles' Antigone: A Student Edition with Commentary, Grammatical Notes, & Vocabulary. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978. [VMI]

Porter, David H. Only Connect: Three Studies in Greek Tragedy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. [W&L]

Rose, Lloyd. "Why Greek Tragedy Still Matters". Washington Post, December 20, 1998.

Scodel, Ruth. Sophocles. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984. [VMI]

Segal, Charles. "Sophocles' Praise of Man and the Conflicts of the Antigone" in his Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986. [W&L]

Segal, Charles. Sophocles' Tragic World : Divinity, Nature, Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. [VMI]

Segal, Charles. Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. [W&L]

Steiner, George. Antigones. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press, 1984. [W&L]

Whitman, Cedric Hubbell. The Heroic Paradox: Essays on Homer, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. [VMI]

Winnington-Ingram, R. P. Sophocles: An Interpretation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. [W&L]

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