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Help in burying her brother is what Antigone needs in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone does not have the strength to bury her brother Polyneices properly on her own. A proper Theban burial is below ground and accompanied by funereal rites. Antigone knows that with or without help she can carry out the proper anointing. But without help she must give her brother a partial burial whereby his body is left above ground but covered with a layer of dust.

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