The imagery of Sophocles’ Antigone: A study of poetic language and structure

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by  Robert Francis Goheen

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The Imagery of Sophocles'
Antigone
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The Imagery of
Sophocles' zAntigone
A STUDY
OF POETIC LANGUAGE
AND STRUCTURE
By Robert F. Goheen
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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COPYRIGHT, I95IJ BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS AT PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
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TO
M. S. G.
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C O N T E N T S
I. INTRODUCTION I
Program 3
A Word on Method 5
Dimensions of the Tragic Form 7
The Fact of Recurrence 9
II. IMAGERY OF EVALUATION AND CONTROL 14
The Money Sequence 14
The Military Sequence 19
Men : Brutes :: Gods : Men 26
III. THE LARGER TRAGIC PERSPECTIVE IN
THREE SUPPORTING IMAGE PATTERNS 36
The Marriage Motif 37
Images of Disease and Cure 41
Images of the Sea and Sailing 44
IV. IMAGERY AND STRUCTURE IN THE ODES 52
Stasimon 1 53
Stasimon 11 56
Stasimon iv 64
V. "AND AT LAST TEACH WISDOM" 75
Antigone and the Way of Innate Intuition 76
Creon and the Way of Sense and Reason 82
Phronein-Aphrosyne 83
The Imagery of Sight 84
Nature and Law 86
The End is Wisdom 93
POSTSCRIPT. APPROACHES TO THE ISSUE 101
The General Problem 101
Imagery. A Working Definition 104
Formal Characteristics of the Images 108
Subject Matter of the Images 115
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CONTENTS
CHART: TEMPORAL PATTERN OF THE DOMINANT IMAGE
SEQUENCES I20-I2I
NOTES 125
BIBLIOGRAPHY 158
INDEX OF REFERENCES TO THE TEXT 167
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