Antigone

In ancient Greece at the annual festival playwrights competed to determine whose tragedy was the best. Audience participation was regarded as a civic duty. In ancient Rome jeering was common at the gladiator games. Audience participation often determined if a competitor lived or died.

No, Creon in 'Medea' wasn't the same as Creon in 'Antigone'. In the first case, Creon was the King of Corinth and the father of Princess Creusa. Both father and daughter were killed by Medea, who didn't want to let go of her husband Jason. In the second case, Creon was the King of Thebes. He also was the father of Megara and thereby father-in-law to Heracles. He was killed by Lycus, who was Nycteus' brother. Nycteus was the father of Nycteis, who married Theban King Polydorus. Their son, Theban King Labdacus, was the father of Theban King Laius, who married Creon's sister Jocasta.

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Killed his father and slept w/ his mom

To show evil and to show how the beast is in the greek times. It also shows the incongruent elementse throughout the picture To show evil and to show how the beast is in the greek times. It also shows the incongruent elementse throughout the picture

The play 'Oedipus Rex' begins with Thebes suffering on all fronts. A famine is leaving Thebans weak, starving, or dead. A low birth rate isn't replacing the dead and dying with fresh, stronger heirs and heiresses. A pestilence is ravaging their population of grazing flocks and herds.

Sophocles [c. 496 B.C.E.* - 406 B.C.E.] offers no specific explanation for the moral correctness or incorrectness of his characters in the play 'Antigone'. But he has the chorus warn that once the gods become angry with a mortal, they take their revenge out on all of that mortal's family and succeeding generations. No matter what the offending mortal, mortal's family and mortal's descendants do, they sooner or later find themselves on the gods' hit list. The chorus even may be said to see mortals as the prey, toy, and victim of the gods. The gods lure mortals to mischief and then to punishment. And there's nothing that the mortal, the mortal's family, or the mortal's descendants can do to stop the cycle of mischief and punishment. But those mortals who manage to do great deeds, to show special power or strength, in the face of the cursed cycle are heroes. Antigone is such a hero. Some of her heroism comes from within herself. But it undoubtedly comes also from her parents. Her parents are morally correct people and good sovereigns. But they unknowingly commit heinous offenses against their fellow Thebans and their gods. Theban King Oedipus unknowingly kills Laius, his father and his King. He unknowingly marries his own mother, Queen Jocasta. But like their daughter, they're good people who are put in harm's way because of the divine curse on Oedipus' ancestor, Labdacus. *Before the Christian Era

Why didn't Antigone want ismene to share her death

Yes, Eurydice, the wife of Creon commits suicide in the play 'Antigone'.

It's very simple. Oedipus, a number of years ago was a wanderer when he saved the kingdom of Thebes from a Sphinx. As a reward, he gets to marry Jocasta, the dowager Queen of Thebes, whose husband was murdered on a highway in mysterious circumstances. Fast forward a few years, during which Oedipus and Jocasta have raised a happy family. However, Oedipus is invited to find the murderer of the late king. The play is the story of his investigation, in the course of which Oedipus discovers that he himself is the murderer, and that the late king was his father and Jocasta was his mother. Jocasta hangs herself when this revelation is made, and Oedipus blinds himself.

Apollo and the references to light are the symbolic representations of the contrast between the seeing and the blind in 'Oedipus Rex'. For example, Theban King Oedipus may be described as mentally blind to the workings of fate. He ends up being physically blinded by how he works out that fate. Teiresias, on the other hand, is physically blind. But his physical blindness never gets in the way of his mental sharpness. He never is or becomes mentally blinded by or to what's going on around him.

Creon wants Oedipus back because he want to use Oedipus as a talisman to save the people of Thebes from any curse.....

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The year 442 B.C.E. is suggested as a publication year for the play 'Antigone'. But that's just a guesstimate. It's based on the writing style of the play and the events in the life of playwright Sophocles [c. 496 B.C.E. - c. 406 B.C.E.].

she does not care if she is put to death because she knows that she will be with her brother and she will know that after she is gone everybody in Thebes will think of her as a hero.

Teiresias

After leaving Corinth to save who he thought were his parents from the prophecy of his life answered the Sphinx's riddle (what walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening) and in doing so saved Thebes from the Sphinx. As a reward he was given the Queen's hand in marriage (who was actually his mother) and became King of Thebes. As he was actually the son of the royal house of Thebes this was his blood title but he only gained the title when he had killed his farther and married his mother.

Scene 2 of 'Antigone' is devoted to the conversation between Haemon and his father, Theban King Creon. The Chorus Leader, who's called 'Choragos', doesn't side with anyone. Instead, throughout the father and son interaction, the Leader rephrases the good points that each one makes. He progresses from a conviction that Creon speaks wisely to doubt as to whether there's wisdom in Creon's words. He likewise progresses from a conviction that Haemon speaks wisely to surprise over the son's anger against his own father and his own king.

The closest that the Leader gets to taking a side is at the very end of the scene. The King clearly says that Haemon won't be able to save either of his first cousins, Antigone and Ismene, from death. But the Leader goes ahead and asks if the King really intends to put both of his nieces to death. The King then backs down and specifies that Antigone, as the perpetrator of the offense against the state, will be executed, but Ismene won't.

Ismene reacts with fear. She wants Polyneices to be given an honorable burial as much as Antigone does, but she is far too terrified to do it herself because of the death penalty that Creon has imposed for anyone who attempts to bury Polyneices. Out of fear, she refuses to help Antigone bury Polyneices. However, later on, she attempts to die alongside her sister for the crime that Antigone committed by herself.

The setting of the play 'Antigone' is the city of Thebes. Most of the action takes place in and around the royal palace. But there also is the procession of Antigone from the city to a remote cave. At various times throughout the play, there are ninecharacters on stage. The main characters are Antigone; her sister Ismene; her uncle Theban King Creon, his wife Queen Eurydice, and their son Haemon; and the blind prophet Teiresias. There also are appearances by a guard and two messengers. Additionally, there's a chorus that typically numbers about 15 members.

It wasn't meant to teach us anything. Greek myths didn't have morals built into them. The message of that story was one of Athens' superiority over Crete. The Minoans were depicted as wicked, lustful and evil, while the Athenians as noble, helpful, and heroic. I think that's clear enough.

she wasn't afraid to announce that she buried her brother, and was proud of the fact and wouldn't deny it because it was the right thing to do, and followed the God's laws

The three sins he committed were killing his father(Patricide), killing a king, marrying his mother and having children with her(Incest)

Recognition (or self-recognition)

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