"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride." Polynices and his brother died in their battle to become the sole ruler of Thebes. Creon, the new King, decreed that Polynice, the invader, should be denied proper burial rites and his body left to rot and be eaten by carrion and dogs. According to Greek religion, this punishment would prevent his soul from entering the underworld. Creon added that anyone who ignored hi...

Of all the Greek theatre, few works remain. Antigone is one of the most famous short pieces we still have. It is deserving. This tragedy is a powerful, deep, immense, great work. You had to be Sophocles to do this to us. It's enormous, beautiful, and intense!

I know all too well I’m going to die— how could I not?—it makes no difference what you decree. And if I have to diebefore my time, well, I count that a gain.When someone has to live the way I do,surrounded by so many evil things,how can she fail to find a benefitin death? *Strong female characters did not exist before modern times**Old books are boring and outdated*Antigone premiered in 441 B.C.E. She's still as relevant today as she was centuries ago. Each time I re-read this masterpiece...

11/21/21: I recently saw a production of Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus who defied King Creon to bury her brother, knowing that to obey divine law in this moment was the right and just thing to do. It's a little complicated from her on in, but what follows is a review of a kind of adaptation of the Antigone story set in Nazi Germany. Antigone is about family, pride and its difference from arrogance, about the assumption of political (and male) dominance, and about love. I reflect in the follo...

"Your soul is blowing apart." Antigone ~~ Sophokles Anne CarsonI love Antigone. I think it is one of the very best of the Greek tragedies ~~ no one of the very best of all tragedies ever written.Random thought ~~ I suspect there is a play that is part of this cycle that is missing ~~ a play that focuses on the brothers.This review will not focus on the play itself, but on the wonderful translation by Anne Carson. Anne Carson is a poet. She is a wordsmith in the highest sense of the word. Sh...

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars to Antigone, the third in a trilogy of Theban plays written around 441 BC (yes, almost 2500 years ago) by Sophocles. In my junior year of high school, our Advanced Placement English teacher assigned all three Theban plays. This is a mini-review on the final one, Antigone, which was my second favorite -- Oedipus Rex was of course, my favorite. In this Greek tragedy, Antigone, Oedipus Rex's daughter, fights to have a proper burial for her brother. She is str...

Antigone is a real heroine; she stands up for what she believes in. She was faced with a strong dilemma. The law of man, the word of her uncle the king, demands that her brother's body remains unburied in the open with no funeral rights, to be savaged by animals. For King Creon, this is a symbolic justice for a traitor and a rebel, but the laws of the God’s, and the ruling of Antigone’s own mind, demands that she gives him libations (death rights) that all men deserve. She buries the body and fa...

This drama highlights the differences between state and divine law. Especially interesting is the language. Sophocles has done very well to portray this conflict. Even after 2500 years still a worth reading, profound text.

This was a reread for me.

The first time I read this play was in my sophomore year or high school and I remember liking it but I LOVED it this time around.

It's fabulous and now I want to read the rest of the Theban plays.

Suck on that, Creon. They named the play after her.