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By being buried alive and starving is the way in which Antigone is to be killed in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone breaks a royal edict against burial of the disloyal Theban dead in the recent civil war over the Theban royal succession. She is supposed to die from a shower of stones thrown by Theban citizens. But her uncle, King Creon, makes a last-minute change in the sentence to death by being buried alive in a remote cave, in which she is left with a limited supply of food. Antigone in fact takes her life shortly after being walled up.

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