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	Antigone by Sophocles
		Antigone refuses to change her opinion even when she is confronted by the king and sentenced to death.
		Antigone's reasoning is, "It was not Zeus who published this decree, nor have the powers who rule among the dead imposed such laws as this upon mankind; nor could I think that a decree of yours- a man-could override the laws of Heaven, unwritten and unchanged"(450-455).
		Antigone has the laws of heaven as well as her family in mind; on the other hand, Creon's concern is his city and its greatness as well as the need to be an all powerful king.
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	Sophocles' Antigone
		Sophocles, like Aeschylus and Euripides, made a virtue of the necessity of this convention of the ancient theater by writing elaborate messenger speeches which provide a vivid word picture of the offstage action.
		Antigone compares herself to Niobe (Tantalus's daughter) who because of her grief turned to stone (825-826).
		This passage was in the text of the Antigone used by Aristotle in the fourth century.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/studyguide/antigone.htm (1893 words)

	Study guide for Sophocles' Antigone
		Antigone is compared to a mother bird (471ff), not the last time she is referred to as maternal in this play.
		Antigone's defense to Creon (499-524) is very important, so read it carefully.
		Antigone becomes a "Bride of Death" (or "Bride of Hades").
	www.temple.edu /classics/antigone.html (970 words)

	Antigone 2, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		This is why Antigone 2, who thought that she had a duty to the dead, decided to give his brother Polynices burial, contravening Creon 2, who refused to give equal honor to good and bad.
		Antigone 3, daughter of King Laomedon 1 of Troy, set herself against Hera, and the goddess turned her into a stork.
		In time, Antigone 2 bore a son, who, after having grown to manhood, came to compete in the Theban games, and there he was recognized by Creon 2, because all those who descend from a certain dragon [see SPARTI] had a mark on their bodies.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Antigone2.html (3410 words)

	Sophocles' Antigone
		Antigone announces her intention to defy the order of the king and bury her brother, in accordance with divine law (1-38).
		Antigone rejects the timidity of her sister, saying that she is prepared to die in this cause, and they exit (69-99).
		Antigone is brought out, and together she and the chorus sing of her lost marriage, her ancestor Niobe, and the previous troubles of her family (801-881).
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/Hum110/Antigone.html (1000 words)

	Sophocles - Biography and Works
		Sophocles (495-405 B.C) was one of the great playwrights of the golden age of Greek Drama.
		Sophocles chose to make each tragedy a complete entity in itself as a result of which he had to pack all of his action into the shorter form, and this clearly offered greater dramatic possibilities.
		Another masterpiece, Antigone, is the story of a passionate young woman who refuses to submit to earthly authority when it forbids a proper burial for her brother.
	www.online-literature.com /sophocles (808 words)

	Sophocles. 1909–14. Antigone. Vol. 8, Part 6. The Harvard Classics
		Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
		Creon, the king of Thebes, forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule.
		Antigone, soon to marry Creon's son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother Polyneices.
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	Antigone (Sophocles) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and the sister of the dead brothers, believes this proclamation to be against the the will of the gods (which she describes as "...the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven.
		Antigone's who is a homo sexual fiancé and Creon's son, Haemon, arrives, talking about how the whole city thinks Antigone did the right thing by trying to give her brother a decent burial.
		Antigone seems to be in love with her dead brother which links to the forbidden relationship between Oedipus and Jocasta while the fratricidal conflict of Eteocoles and Polynices has echos of Oedipus's patricide of Laius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antigone_(Sophocles) (964 words)

	Background to Antigone
		While playwrights always presented three plays at the festivals to honor Dionysus, Sophocles did not present the three plays he wrote depicting the tragedies of the House of Cadmus, or the Theban plays as they are more commonly called, as a trilogy, nor did he write and produce them in order of their content.
		Oedipus’; two daughters, Antigone and Ismene, accompanied him into exile, while his two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, remained in Thebes, where Jocasta's brother Creon ruled until the boys were old enough to take over the throne.
		Antigone, who is upset over Creon's order, seeks out Ismene to gain her help in burying her brother.
	ftp.ccccd.edu /mtolleson/2332/2332antigone.htm (967 words)

	Antigone, A Discussion of her Biography and Nature
		Antigone went far beyond what is required, and we are grateful for what she did, but we cannot condemn any that were too weak to follow.
		Antigone's tragic condition was that if she was true to her belief of the divine law she would be physically killed.
		Antigone (1972), This 1972 stage adaptation of Sophocles' famous tragedy is propelled by the captivating performance of the distinguished actress Genevieve Bujold in the title role.
	www.fjkluth.com /antigone.html (1309 words)

	Antigone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antigone was the best known daughter/sister of Oedipus and daughter of Iocaste (Jocasta), or, according to the older story, of Euryganeia.
		Antigone's sister, Ismene, then declares she had aided Antigone and desires the same fate, although she was innocent.
		Antigone's character and these incidents of her life present an attractive subject to the Greek tragic poets, especially Sophocles in the Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, and Euripides, whose Antigone, though now lost, is partly known from extracts incidentally preserved in later writers, and from passages in his Phoenissae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antigone (909 words)

	The Existence Machine: Antigone (i)
		Against this Hitlerian fl, Antigone is all white; she is the image of what Brecht longed to see--the rising of the German people against Hitler, a resistance that in fact never came to birth.
		Antigone buries Polynices, incurring the wrath of Creon.
		Sophocles' plays were much more nuanced than Brecht's version of Antigone appears to be, and the complex lessons involved might not have come off as a glorified lecture to his audience.
	yolacrary.blogspot.com /2007/11/antigone-i.html (1529 words)

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		ANTIGONE I will not urge thee,-no nor, if thou yet shouldst have the mind, wouldst thou be welcome as a worker with me. Nay, be what thou wilt; but I will bury him: well for me to die in doing that.
		ANTIGONE Yes; for it was not Zeus that had published me that edict; not such are the laws set among men by the justice who dwells with the gods below; nor deemed I that thy decrees were of such force, that a mortal could override the unwritten and unfailing statutes of heaven.
		ANTIGONE Whose was the deed, Hades and the dead are witnesses: a friend in words is not the friend that I love.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/sophocles-antigone.txt (9151 words)

	Structure and Plot of Antigone
		In the Antigone the scene is an open space before the royal palace at Thebes; what occurs elsewhere--the sprinkling of the dust over the corpse of Polyneices and the arrest of Antigone, her death and the deaths of Haemon and Eurydice--being announced and described by messengers.
		Then turning to Creon and reminding him that Antigone was betrothed to his son, she pleads piteously that the life of one who was to have been his daughter-in-law should be spared.
		Antigone had hung herself, and Haemon in frenzy was clinging to her corpse, a double-hilted sword at his side.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/structure_and_plot_of_antigone.html (2149 words)

	Free Essay Antigone, Sophocles and My Perspective on Greek Drama
		Antigone’s rebellion against her father is a situation that people of today can live relate to.Antigone is born of the incestuous relationship between Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta.
		Antigone buries Polyneicus despite Creon’s wishes and is condemned to die being buried alive even though she is engaged to his son Haemon.
		Antigone Antigone was not satisfied with the rule of men and knew that the gods would approve her actions.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26896 (1264 words)

	Antigone (Sophocles)
		Antigone (an-TIH-guh-NEE) is a tragedy written in 442 BC by Sophocles.
		Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and the sister of the dead brothers, believes this proclamation to be against the gods' orders.
		Antigone is caught the next time she goes to her brother, and brought before the furious king.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/SophoclesAntigone.html (675 words)

	Antigone
		Sophocles also emphasized people more than his predecessors, taking characters in well-known plots from mythology and dressing them up as real human beings with noble but complex personalities vulnerable to pride and flawed judgment.
		Another of Sophocles' innovations was an increase in the number of actors in plays from two to three, presenting more opportunities to contrast characters and create foils.
		Sophocles' handling of human tragedy was influenced, in part, by the tragedies of war.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /antigone.html (4186 words)

	Antigone: Background Notes
		Antigone is conventionally dated to 442 BCE, on the strength of a report linking Sophocles' generalship of 441/440 BCE to his success with this play.
		Antigone's "crime" in the play, as the Guard describes it in lines 421ff., is clearly a symbolic funerary ritual.
		As Antigone explains in the opening lines of the play, Creon has announced that anyone who disobeys the edict forbidding burial or mourning of Polyneices will be put to death by stoning.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /cciv110x/antigone/cciv110.back.antigone.html (1044 words)

	Antigone - Research and Read Books, Journals, Articles at Questia Online Library
		Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state...
		Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' Antigone has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny.
		Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death.
	www.questia.com /library/music-and-performing-arts/antigone.jsp (1775 words)

	Suicide and Democracy
		The myth of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is an extraordinary dramatic legacy, worthy of exploration both for Sophocles' consummate handling of the theatrical machine and for the political and social significance of Antigone's actions.
		To Antigone this is an intolerable act of violence, particularly if we consider that, in ancient Greece, funeral rites provided women with a rare opportunity to participate in civic life.
		From Sophocles' point of view, Antigone's suicide is not a nihilistic or pathological act, but rather the only possible way to restore her dignity.
	www.amrep.org /past/antigone/antigone4.html (512 words)

	Study Questions Sophocles
		Antigonê is the third play in a three-part series or trilogy.
		Teiresias, Eurydicê;, Creon, Haimon, Antigonê, Ismenê, Polyneices, Eteoclês, and in brief allusions, Bachos (Bacchus), Aphrodite, and Danaê.
		When Antigonê is locked away in the vault, she speaks of the deity Persephone.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/study/201_Sophocles_Antigone01.html (1132 words)

	Antigone by Sophocles: The Perfect Hegelian Tragedy - Associated Content
		At the end of the play, Sophocles offers no true explanation to which stance was correct, but merely eludes to the fact that the only way the problem could have been solved was through compromise.
		Antigone's argument is based on religious, unwritten law, family ties and conscience.
		Antigone is infuriated that Creon has denied her brother, Polynices, proper burial rights.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/283362/antigone_by_sophocles_the_perfect_hegelian.html (573 words)

	Free Essay Greek Tragedy, Sophocles' Antigone Summary and Research
		Antigone is the daughter of the late king of Thebes, Oedipus.
		As Antigone hears of the decree and of the fact that the body of Polynices was uncovered she goes to relay dust over the body again.
		Antigone hangs herself in the cave where she was supposed to spend her last days and Haemon at the very sight of his beloved kills himself in front of his father.
	echeat.com /essay.php?t=26669 (1173 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Antigone (Dover Thrift): Books: Sophocles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Antigone and Creon defend what each of them considers to be right, the first one justice, and the other one the law of the city.
		This leads Antigone, sister to both of the slain brothers, to have to choose between obeying the rule of the state, the dictates of familial binds, and the will of the gods.
		Antigone is a brilliantly strong female character and the play is full of passion.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Antigone-Dover-Thrift-Sophocles/dp/0486278042 (1045 words)

	Antigone Summary and Study Guide - Sophocles
		Greek playwright Sophocles wrote the last play in the Theban Trilogy, Antigone, around 442 B.C. The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, but the play considered the last of the three was, ironically, written first.
		Antigone tells the story of the title character, daughter of Oedipus (the former king of Thebes, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, and who renounced his kingdom upon discovering his actions), and her fight to bury her brother Polyneices against the edict of her uncle, Creon, the new king of Thebes.
		Antigone won Sophocles first prize at the festival and was an enormous success.
	www.enotes.com /antigone (399 words)

	Sophocles, Antigone
		Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, disobeys the orders of Creon, king of Thebes, who forbids the burial of her brother Polyneices, a traitor to the city.
		After Antigone buries Polyneices, Creon condemns her to death and has her buried alive in a cave.
		Is Antigone's tragic fate the result of an inevitable destiny or does she make choices which contribute to the fulfillment of that fate?
	fajardo-acosta.com /worldlit/sophocles/antigone.htm (402 words)

	Antigone essays - Ismene And Haimon of Sophocles' Antigone
		Antigone, the character, is a tragic hero because we care about her.
		Another reason Ismene is incorporated to Antigone is to show exactly strong-willed Antigone is. Haimon is there to show that Antigone has a life and a future outside her purpose.
		This is all-important because first, it shows that not everyone is against Antigone and second, shows he loves her and that a future with her is not out of the question.
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