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Contributing to the unfurling tragedy is the role that choices play in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Creon chooses to issue an edict that denies to the disloyal Theban dead their god-given rights as Thebans to below ground burials. His niece, Princess Antigone, chooses to offend Creon by breaking his law, burying her disgraced brother Polyneices and getting sentenced to death. His other niece, Princess Ismene, chooses not to help her sister Antigone and thereby makes it so that Polyneices is given a partial instead of a below ground burial.

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