Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the American Edition -- Introduction to the French Edition -- Chapter 1 Antigone-Young Girl or Queen? -- Whose Antigone? A digression on Hölderlin's approach to translation -- Chapter 2 The War for Thebes in the Light of the Risen Sun -- Chapter 3 Creon, and the Formidable Tricks of Man -- Intermezzo The Beauty of Antigone -- Chapter 4 Creon, Antigone, Ismene The Great Debates -- Chapter 5 Friends and Foes Haemon, Antigone, and Creon -- Chapter 6 Tiresias, or "Pure Speech -- Chapter 7 Rhythm, Language, and Time in Hölderlin's -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.