...This chapter analyzes the link between democracy and the tragedy. It argues that the absence of intervening gods places the funeral rite in the realm of political autonomy, confronting two forms of political speech—a ritual and an edict. Antigone's laws differ from Creon's not because hers...

... an unbridgeable schism between her and the others. But it is also an antithesis whose application is challenged in the course of the play, notably by Creon, who assigns the labels ‘friend’ and ‘enemy’ in different ways. The conflict is not between solid, unitary characters – or at least not between solid, unitary...

...This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the orders of Creon, King of Thebes. Creon sentenced Antigone to death, but, before the order could...

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..., Sophocles’s Creon and Antigone thought that the dominant value was justice, but they radically disagreed about whether it was primarily political or religious. The comparison in the chapter is between a Sherpa who had reason for accepting the unjust treatment he received and Creon and Antigone who had reasons...

...This chapter explores the character developments of Antigone and Creon in Sophocles' Greek tragedy Antigone. It explains that Antigone's defiance over Creon's decree shows her devotion to uphold her familial duty to honor her dead brother, Polyneices. Creon's decree, though...

...This chapter describes the three major characters in Thebaid—Eteocles, Polynices, and Creon—the first two of whom are primarily concerned with securing a power they do not yet possess. They differ fundamentally in their approaches to exchange and consumption in ways that make...

... of California (UC) Santa Barbara. My disciplinary background is population and community ecology, and prior to my involvement with the LTER program, my research and that of my students focused mainly on questions related to population dynamics and species interactions. Australia CREON Great Barrier Reef...

... perspective (Creon, Clytemnestra) that both women enter into as a result of their monism. The tragedy, it is argued, turns on the dramatization of this feud and it is ultimately presented as incommensurable. In this way, both plays close with no unambiguous sense of who is right and who is wrong. Ajax...

... as an aspiring tyrant, and Creon in Statius’ Thebaid, and at last the fearsome Hannibal in Silius Italicus’ Punica. This part of the book looks at how tyrants’ fear, read through the lens of Stoic thought, similes, and intra- and intertextual models, reveals a narrative...

...In light of the discussion of leadership and the idea of a public, this chapter considers what it is to be in a position of strategic authority constituted by unhomely spectating and hence judgment. Illustrations come from Sophocles’ Antigone and Creon. Kant Immanuel Kierkegaard Søren Nietzsche...