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Issuance of the non-burial edict and burial and re-burial of Polyneices' bodiesare major events that take place before scene 2 opens in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Creon makes a public announcement issuing his non-burial edict of the disloyal Theban dead in scene 1. But the law already is broken immediately before, during or after the issuance. The law again is broken in scene 1 when Princess Antigone returns and reburies the re-exposed body of her brother Polyneices.

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That Antigone prefers to respect the eternal commands of the gods for below ground burials and funeral services for all Thebans and that Ismene prefers to respect her uncle's blasphemous law that denies such rights to the disloyal Theban dead are the reasons why the sisters quarrel as the play 'Antigone' by Sophocles [496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.] opens.


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