Sophocles’ Antigone: Duty and the Polis in Classical
Greek Drama
- Sophocles (496-406 BCE) and Fifth Century Athens
- Athenian Democracy and Imperialism
- The Rights and Responsibilities of a Citizen
- Sophocles Fulfills His Duty as Strategos.
- Greek Drama
- Contests and Contexts
- Homer’s Crumbs
- Dionysus: Ritual and Respect
- The Dutiful Sister: Antigone
- Beginning in the Middle
- The Aftermath of War
- Honoring the Brother
- The Penalty, the Past and the Future
- Creon’s Son, Haemon
- Youth and Age
- Tiresias’ Prophecy