According to the Chapter in Presnell that discusses monographs, it states that a monograph is a book on a specific subject or that discusses a specific date in time. I found a book, Everyday Life in Ancient Greece, by C.E. Robinson a professor at Winchester College. It was first published in 1933 and so I was a bit apprehensive to use it as a major reference but I am really only using it for the dates which it has in it and I was able to double check the dates with other sources and found the to be factual.
Link to online site where you can skim through the fulltext version of the book, http://www.questia.com/read/59501764?title=Everyday%20Life%20in%20Ancient%20Greece%20(1933)
I am including this monograph because the events and dates represented within it helped the production team to develop some background on what was happening in ancient Greece while Sophocles was writing "Antigone." It turns out that just twelve years prior to Sophocles writing "Antigone" Greece had gone through a major shift in government styles from their Delian Confederacy into the Athenian Empire. These types of changes in politics undoubtedly influenced the culture of ancient Greece and the way many of them viewed power and government as a whole. It will help us to develop a complete analysis of why things are being portrayed in the play and how to shape the theme of the show to get that point across to our audience or at least guide them in beginning to think about such matters.
Citation:
Robinson, C. E. Everyday Life in Ancient Greece. London: Oxford UP, 1933. Print.
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