Premium Content The Non-Sacred Monster: Antigone as a Self-Determined Tragic Hero
By Loren Cappelson - April 24, 2008
One of the key thematic threads running through the plays of The Oedipus Cycle is the debate regarding the primary importance between the laws of the gods over those of the State. For example, in both Oedipus Rex and Antigone, the eponymous characters are torn between serving the Theban body politique and heeding the moral imperatives inherent to…
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