Antigone (1581)
Antigone is a 1581 drama book written by Sophocles.
Oedipus is gone, and Thebes has a new ruler: Kreon, who has forbidden the burial of one of the dead from the city's civil war. Antigone, Oedipus's daughter, refuses to leave her brother unburied, and her defiance sets one unbending will against another. Sophocles builds the whole tragedy on collisions that still feel current, family against state, the individual against the ruler, sacred duty against the law of the land. First staged in Athens around 441 BC, it is one of the three Theban plays and among the oldest of Sophocles' works to survive, its arguments echoing for well over two thousand years.
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What is Antigone about?
Oedipus is gone, and Thebes has a new ruler: Kreon, who has forbidden the burial of one of the dead from the city's civil war. Antigone, Oedipus's daughter, refuses to leave her brother unburied, and her defiance sets one unbending will against another. Sophocles builds the whole tragedy on collisions that still feel current, family against state, the individual against the ruler, sacred duty against the law of the land. First staged in Athens around 441 BC, it is one of the three Theban plays and among the oldest of Sophocles' works to survive, its arguments echoing for well over two thousand years.
When was Antigone published?
Antigone was published in 1581.
Who made Antigone?
Antigone was written by Sophocles.
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One person's conscience set against an unjust state
Antigone buries her brother against the king's decree and refuses to bend. These stories carry the same charge, following people who set their conscience against an unjust authority and accept the cost. Each one asks how far a single person can push back before the system crushes them.
Tragic sagas of pride, loyalty and slow ruin
Sophocles builds his tragedy on two unbending wills that will not yield. These share that sense of doom, following proud figures bound by loyalty or vengeance toward an ending they cannot escape. Ancient myth, crime saga and quiet fable alike turn duty and pride into a slow ruin.