SOPHOCLES,
Antigone. Edited by M. Griffith.
Cambridge University Press, 2015. 16th impr. XII,366p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. ‘Mark Griffith’s edition of Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ is a welcome addition to the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. The best volumes in the series (…) enrich the traditional commentary format with the editor’s distinctive scholarly concerns. (…) Griffith’s ‘Antigone’ (…) lives up to the series’ high standards. The introduction has almost thirty pages of background information on Sophocles and Athens, the myth, dramatic structure, technique, and style, the production of Greek drama, and the transmission of the text. The forty pages on ‘The Meaning of the Play’ contain short essays with bibliography on aesthetics, lessons, characters, ethics, contradictions (human/divine, polis/oikos, male/female), politics, and fantasies. The section on character is especially clear and forceful. (…) The text is temperately conservative, with good taste displayed when conjectures and variant readings are chosen. The commentary is careful, scholarly, and yet accessible to students. Difficult passages are translated with close attention to particles. (…) Each chorus is accompanied by a metrical description based on colometry (…). Griffith’s short essays explaining the metrical patterns are usually successful.’ ((E. CHRISTIAN KNOPFF in The American Journal of Philology, 2001, p. 274).
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