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By sentencing her to death through starvation and exposure to uncomfortable cave temperatures and scary cave denizens, through having her walled up with a limited food supply in a remote cave, is how Theban King Creon punishes his niece and intended daughter-in-law Antigone for having treasonously disobeyed his law against non burial of the disloyal Theban dead.

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Is Creon or Antigone the greater protagonist?

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