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for a defence against the contemporary critique of the alleged anachronism of interest in tragedy as political theory, cf. J. Peter Euben, The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road not Taken (Princeton, 1990), pp. 4 ff.
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G.W.F. Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik, III, in Werke, XV (Frankfurt/Main, 1993), p. 523.
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Gennaro Perrotta, Sofocle (Messina and Milan, 1935), pp. 59 f.
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R.C. Jebb, 'Introduction', in Antigone, ed. R.C. Jebb (Cambridge, 1966), pp. ii-xxx, especially pp. xix ff.
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Gerhard Müller, Sophokles Antigone (Heidelberg, 1967), especially pp. 9-21. Müller seems to consider Hegel's theory to be a specifically German statist apology of political repression.
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Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, (Paris)
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Jean-Pierre Vernant, 'Tensions et ambiguïtés dans la tragédie grecque', in Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne, I (Paris, 2001), p. 34.
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Martin Cropp, 'Antigone's Final Speech (Sophocles, 'Antigone' 891-928)', Greece and Rome, Second Series, XXXXIV (2) (1997), pp. 137-60, here p. 153.
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Müller, Sophokles Antigone, p. 9: 'ein tiefliegendes Missverständnis dessen ist, was Sophokles darstellen will' (my emphasis).
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This seems to be the kind of interpretation suggested in Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, 'Assumptions and the Creation of Meaning: Reading Sophocles' Antigone', Journal of Hellenic Studies, CIX (1989), pp. 134-48;
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Gregory Crane, 'Creon and the "Ode to Man" in Sophocles' Antigone', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, XCII (1989), pp. 103-16, here p. 115. Whereas the latter is vague on this issue, it seems as if the former at least comes fairly close to equating the audience's understanding of the play with the correct interpretation of it.
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