The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone

The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone
Authors: Sophocles
Published on: 2004
Page Count: 72 pages
Print Type: BOOK
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Language: en
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When Creon, the King of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the 'treacherous' other, Antigone disobeys the order believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. For this she was condemned to death by Creon and walled up in a tomb.

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