Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought by George Steiner

Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought

George Steiner

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According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between ...

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