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Antigone
1912 Translation by F. Storr, BA. Former Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge.
ARGUMENT:
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon's watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is betrothed, pleads in vain for her life and threatens to die with her. Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison. But he is too late: he finds lying side by side Antigone who had hanged herself and Haemon who also has perished by his own hand. Returning to the palace he sees within the dead body of his queen who on learning of her son's death has stabbed herself to the heart.
Most probable dates of Sophocles' plays:
Antigone (c. 445 BC);
Aias (c. 400-500BC);
King Oedipus (c. 425 BC);
Electra (c. 425-500 BC);
Trachiniae (c. 420 BC);
Philoctetes (c. 408 BC);
Oedipus at Colonos (c. 400 BC)
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Antigone;;Sophocles;;HELP please...
Okay so i've read the play Antigone serveral times. i have an assignment on it. Im not asking for you to do it, i just need help. i cant really understand these quotes. 1. For zeus utterly abhors the boast of a proud toungue. 2. One World approved thy wisdom; another mine. 3. Woe is me, for the wretched blindness of my counsels. im supposed to write and essay on camparing how one of these quotes relates to the theme of the play... but i dont really get the meaning of any of the quotes. Help would be reaaaallly nice right now. :]
Antigone
I was recently reading antigone at school, and my teacher got mad at me. I simply stated that the author himseld was infact a politician, and would therefore hide fear of ruling underneath too much pride. It got intresting when I too told the teacher that when a new king is ruling, it would make more sense that they would be afraid of whats going on, and of any resistance of the government, for that would appear to make the king look weak to surrounding kings and make them think that they could take over. Am I wrong to think this? Or am I just thinking about it too hard?
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