Sophocles' Antigone
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ISBN: 081020214X / Publisher: PEARSON, January 1997
Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traitor
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Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. 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, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.
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