<p>Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, <em>Antigone</em> is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg. Powerfully portraying the clash between civic and familial duty--between morality and obedience--the play brings the Oedipus Cycle to a conclusion with the story of the tragic hero&#39;s eldest daughter <em>Antigone</em>, who courts her own death by defying the edict of Thebes&#39;s new ruler, her uncle Kreon, which forbids giving her dishonored brother a proper burial. This is Sophocles, vibrant and alive, for a new generation.</p>