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That a dead person is left unburied and that a living person is buried alive are examples of situational irony in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, situational irony describes an outcome that is inappropriate or unexpected. The description fits the fates of Theban Prince Polyneices and Princess Antigone. Polyneices is dead but his body is denied its god-given rights to a below ground burial. His sister Antigone is sentenced to live burial for breaking her uncle Creon's law of non-burial and trying to bury her brother.

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