Tiresias responds that because of Creon's mistakes, he will lose " a son of own loins " for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied and putting Antigone into the earth ( he does not say that Antigone should not be condemned to death, only that it is improper to keep a living body underneath the earth ).

The success of the tour encouraged the Oliviers to make their first West End appearance together, performing the same works with one addition, Antigone, included at Leigh's insistence because she wished to play a role in a tragedy.

Sophocles ' Antigone ends in disaster, with Antigone hanging herself after being walled up, and Creon's son Haemon ( or Haimon ), who loved Antigone, killing himself after finding her body.

* Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus, is taken as a hostage to Egypt after the Battle of Ipsus and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of Ptolemy and Berenice.

The most famous play of this group is Antigone, which " established Anouilh as a leading dramatist, not only because of the power with which he drew the classic confrontation between the uncompromising Antigone and the politically expedient Creon, but because French theatre-goers under the occupation read the play as a contemporary political parable.

" His post-war plays dealt with similar concerns and included Roméo et Jeannette, Médée ( Medea ), and Anouilh's Joan of Arc story L ' Alouette ( The Lark ), which, in its distinct optimism, rivalled the commercial success of Antigone.

The Sentry leaves and the Chorus sings about honouring the gods, but after a short absence he returns, bringing Antigone with him.

Rather than become sidetracked with the issues of the time, Antigone remains completely focused on the characters and themes within the play.

Antigone deals with four main questions:

Antigone buries Polyneices at the very beginning, and so the play is consumed mainly with the second, third and fourth questions.

Both Creon and Antigone show much pride which leads to their fates, with Creon's wife and son being killed and Antigone herself dying.

His argument says that had Antigone not been so obsessed with the idea of keeping her brother covered, none of the deaths of the play would have happened.

A well established theme in Antigone is the right of the individual to reject society's infringement on her freedom to perform a personal obligation, obvious in Antigone's refusal to let Creon dictate what she is allowed to do with her family members.

The contrasting views of Creon and Antigone with regard to laws higher than those of state inform their different conclusions about civil disobedience.

Antigone does not deny that Polyneices has betrayed the state, she simply acts as if this betrayal does not rob him of the connection that he would have otherwise had with the city.

Haemon was deeply in love with his cousin and fiancée Antigone, and he killed himself in grief when he found out that his beloved Antigone had hanged herself.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the city drew attention with a number of major redevelopment projects, such as the Corum and especially the Antigone District.

Creon agrees to this request, Oedipus begs to hold his two daughters Antigone and Ismene with his hands one more time to have their fill of tears and Creon out of pity sends the girls in to see Oedipus one more time.

In the opening scene of the play when Antigone is about to perform the burial rituals on Polynices, Ismene serves as the compassionate but rational and prudent counterpart to Antigone's headstrong style of decision-making with no regard for consequence.

In both traditions Oedipus is said to have gouged his eyes, but while Sophocles has Oedipus go into exile with his daughter Antigone, Statius has him residing within Thebes ' walls during the war between Eteocles and Polynieces.

In works like Antigone ( 1814 ), Essais sur les institutions sociales (" Essay on Social Institutions ", 1818 ), Le Vieillard et le jeune homme (" The Old Man and the Youth ", 1819 ), L ' Homme sans nom (" The Man without a Name ", 1820 ) and Élégie (" Elegy ", 1820 ), he developed the idea that the French Revolution was endowed with a divine significance.

Creon defines citizenship as utmost obedience to the will of the state, and thus condemns Antigone to death when he feels that she has abandoned her citizenship by disobeying him.

While Antigone resolves to honor her brother at all costs, Ismene laments that while she too loves her brother, her disposition does not allow her to defy the state and become an outlaw.

Antigone determines this to be unjust, immoral and against the laws of the gods, and is determined to bury her brother regardless of Creon's law.

Antigone is brought before Creon, where she declares that she knew Creon's law but chose to break it, expounding upon the superiority of ' divine law ' to that made by man.

In Antigone, Sophocles asks the question, which law is greater: the gods ' or man's.

Antigone believes that there are rights that are inalienable because they come from the highest authority, or authority itself, that is the divine law.

The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.

One of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles ' play Antigone, in which Antigone, one of the daughters of former King of Thebes, Oedipus, defies Creon, the current King of Thebes, who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial.

In Greek mythology, Antigone ( ; ) is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus ' mother.

Antigone is a daughter of the accidentally incestuous marriage between King Oedipus of Thebes and his mother Jocasta.

The dramatist Euripides also wrote a play called Antigone, which is lost, but some of the text was preserved by later writers and in passages in his Phoenissae.

In Euripides, the calamity is averted by the intercession of Dionysus and is followed by the marriage of Antigone and Haemon.

29 ) refers to Antigone placing the body of Polynices on the funeral pyre, and this is also depicted on a sarcophagus in the Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome.

And in Hyginus ' version of the legend, founded apparently on a tragedy by some follower of Euripides, Antigone, on being handed over by Creon to her lover Haemon to be slain, is secretly carried off by him and concealed in a shepherd's hut, where she bears him a son, Maeon.

This leads to the discovery that Antigone is still alive.

Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles ' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government.

Another early device found in Antigone is the melisma, where many notes are assigned to a single syllable, which is found as well in the music of other ancient and modern cultures.

Antigone (, ) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.

Ismene refuses to help her, fearing the death penalty, but she is unable to stop Antigone from going to bury her brother herself, causing Antigone to disown her.

It occurs when he orders his men to properly bury Polynices before releasing Antigone which can be identified as the mistake or error that led to her death.