Publisher's Synopsis
"A remarkable feat of intellectual agility."-Washington Post Book World
"[An] intellectually demanding but rewarding book. . . consistently stimulating and sometimes disturbing."-The New Republic
"An. . . account of the various treatments of the Antigone theme in European languages. . . Penetrating and novel."-The New York Times Book Review
"A tradition of intelligence and style lives in this prolific man."-Los Angeles Times
"Antigones triumphantly demonstrates that Antigone could fill several volumes of study without becoming tedious or exhausted."-The New York Review of Books