Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language

Number: 19 June 1, 2016
  • Laura Slatkın
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Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language

Abstract

Among humankind’s civilising achievements, as the chorus of Sophocles’ Antigone lists them in the first stasimon, is the acquisition of language, conjoined in the choral catalogue with astunomous orgas – the ‘disposition that regulates cities’, in Jebb’s translation of the phrase1. Following directly upon the chorus’s account of man’s mastery over the animals, this conjunction emphasises that humankind has similarly found a way to master – and organize – itself. In the perspective of the choral ode, learning language and acquiring ‘the disposition that regulates cities’ are not successive stages in a process of becoming civilised, but are complementary aspects of a single dynamic

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English

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Laura Slatkın This is me

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June 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Number: 19

APA
Slatkın, L. (2016). Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language. Adalya, 19, 91-102. https://izlik.org/JA74DF36CJ
AMA
1.Slatkın L. Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language. Adalya. 2016;(19):91-102. https://izlik.org/JA74DF36CJ
Chicago
Slatkın, Laura. 2016. “Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language”. Adalya, nos. 19: 91-102. https://izlik.org/JA74DF36CJ.
EndNote
Slatkın L (June 1, 2016) Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language. Adalya 19 91–102.
IEEE
[1]L. Slatkın, “Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language”, Adalya, no. 19, pp. 91–102, June 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA74DF36CJ
ISNAD
Slatkın, Laura. “Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language”. Adalya. 19 (June 1, 2016): 91-102. https://izlik.org/JA74DF36CJ.
JAMA
1.Slatkın L. Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language. Adalya. 2016;:91–102.
MLA
Slatkın, Laura. “Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language”. Adalya, no. 19, June 2016, pp. 91-102, https://izlik.org/JA74DF36CJ.
Vancouver
1.Laura Slatkın. Sophocles’ Antigone and the Paradoxes of Language. Adalya [Internet]. 2016 Jun. 1;(19):91-102. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA74DF36CJ

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