The Essence of Ancient Tragedy by H.F.W. Hinrichs

The Essence of Ancient Tragedy:
Presented in Lectures on Aesthetics
Concerning the Two Oedipus Plays
of Sophocles in General and the
Antigone in Particular
by Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm
Hinrichs (1794-1861)

An elaboration of Hegel's
interpretation of Sophocles'
Antigone by one of Hegel's
own students, first published
in German in 1827 as Das
Wesen der antiken Tragödie in
ästhetischen Vorlesungen
durchgeführt an den beiden
Oedipus des Sophokles im
allgemeinen und an der
Antigone insbesondere.