Who is Antigone? Sophocles' Antigone is a play in which the reader sees Antigone be punished for burying her brother. King Creon decides that her final punishment was ...
ANTIGONE ANTIGONH (c. 441 B.C.) by Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.) translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald adapted for the Washington Hall mainstage by
Antigone defies her uncle's decree that her traitorous brother should go unburied and therefore find no rest in the afterlife; however, her actions have tragic ...
Antigone Characters. Antigone, the tragic hero who defies Creon in order to give her brother a proper burial. Creon, a tyrant who abuses his power and loses his family.
With the character of Antigone, the reader of the Oedipus Trilogy might get a false impression of watching a young girl grow up, as in a novel or a true series of ...
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ARGUMENT Oedipus, the blind and banished King of Thebes, has come in his wanderings to Colonus, a deme of Athens, led by his daughter Antigone.
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