A monograph, according to Presnell is; a book on a focused subject and more often then not by one author. The book I found was on the every day life of Ancient Greece. I used this book as a basis for looking at the political state of Greece during the time Sophocles wrote and staged Antigone (about 442 BCE).
During the original writing and performances of Sophocles’ Antigone Greece (especially Athens) was in an odd place politically. Twelve years before they had become the Athenian Empire, but hadn’t fully realized its potential (that wouldn’t happen for another eleven years or so. Four years after the original writing of Antigone the Parthenon was completed (Robison, 6), which is widely considered one of the greatest achievements of the ancient world. So the restlessness of the politics that happens in Antigone was a reflection of what Sophocles may have been viewing politically mixed with the rejuvenated religious fervor at the time.
Robinson, Cyril E. Everyday Life in Ancient Greece,. Oxford: Clarendon, 1933. Print.
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