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Gather the guard's statement, interrogateAntigone, and sentence Antigone and Ismene to death is what Creon does in Episode 2 of the play "Antigone" by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the guard gives an eyewitness account of Antigone carrying out the proper burying and anointing rites over the body of her brother Polyneices despite Theban King Creon's law to the contrary. Antigone confesses her role as sole perpetrator of the crime and refuses to accept Ismene's lies in an attempt to share blame and perhaps soften her sister's punishment. Creon pronounces the death sentence on both while implicitly comparing both of his nieces to sheep by referring to their "range [sic] at large."

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