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Stressful and then polluted describes the atmosphere in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, stress is shown with the official end of the recent civil war over the Theban royal succession. Victory in fact does not heal divisions, but increases them through the arbitrary denial of god-given below ground burials to the disloyal Theban dead. The exposure of the unburied bodies to ravaging weather and wildlife brings pestilence into Thebes and pollution into the city's sacred altars.

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