Tragic Ambiguity

"Leur interprétation l'emporte sur les interprétations existantes tant par l'homogénéité que parl al stricte logique interne."Herman van Looy, L'Antiquité Classique, 1989."...points towards some interesting questions and is to be welcomed..."Simon D. Goldhill, The Classical Review, 1988.

• Acknowledgements1. INTRODUCTION1.1. Intercultural comparisons1.2. Premises of our methodAppendix2. SEPARATIVE COSMOLOGIES2.1. Fundamental cosmological categories2.2. Aspects of separative cosmologies2.3. Harmonization in separative cosmologies3. INTERCONNECTED COSMOLOGIES3.1. Building materials of interconnected cosmologies3.2. Man and nature3.3. Man and his gods3.4. Social relations3.5. Life and death3.6. Law and order3.7. Darkness and insight4. ASPECTS OF ANCIENT GREEK COSMOLOGY4.1. Building materials of ancient Greek cosmology4.2. Man and nature4.3. The Greeks and their gods4.4. Social Relations4.5. Life and Death4.6. Law and order4.7. Darkness and insight5. EXISTING INTERPRETATIONS OF SOPHOCLE’S ANTIGONE5.1. The directly separative point of view5.2. The harmonizing point of view6. THE STASIMA OF SOPHOCLES’ANTIGONE6.0. Introduction6.1. The first stasimon6.2. The second stasimon6.3. The third stasimon6.4. The fourth stasimon6.5. The parode and the last stasimon7. THE EPISODES OF SOPHOCLES’ ANTIGONE7.1. Creon’s speech7.2. Antigone’s speech7.3. Antigone and Ismene7.4. Creon and the guard7.5. Creon and Antigone7.6. Haemon, Creomon and Antigone7.7. Antigone’s reversal7.8. Creon’s reversal7.9. Sophocles’ cosmology8. TRAGEDY AND SOME PHILOPHERS8.0. Introduction8.1. Plato’s banishment of tragedy8.2. Ricoeur’s reconciliation of tragedy and philosophy8.3. Philosophical acceptance of tragedyConclusion BibliographyIndex locorumIndex of selected topicsIndex of proper names