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  2. Antigone (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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    Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year.

  3. Antigone - Wikipedia

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    The story of Antigone has been a popular subject for books, plays, and other works, including: Antigone, one of the three extant Theban plays by Sophocles (497 BC – 406 BC), the most famous adaptation; Antigone, a play by Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) which is now lost except for some fragments; Antigone (1631), [9] a play by Thomas May

  4. The Burial at Thebes - Wikipedia

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    Creon, Antigone's uncle and newly appointed King of Thebes, buries Eteocles, who fought on the Theban side of the war, hailing him as a great hero. He refuses to bury Polyneices, proclaiming that any who attempt to defy his wishes will be made an example of, on the grounds that he was a 'traitor' fighting on the opposing side in the war.

  5. Sophocles - Wikipedia

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    A marble relief of a poet, perhaps Sophocles. Sophocles, the son of Sophillus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeios Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for one of his plays; and he was probably born there, [2] [8] a few years before the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC: the exact year is unclear, but 497/6 is most likely.

  6. Seven against Thebes - Wikipedia

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    In Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, Polynices' sister Antigone, in defiance of Creon's decree, tries to bury her brother, an action that leads to the deaths of Antigone, and Creon's son Haemon. [ 19 ] Athenian tradition held that Theseus , the king and founder-hero of Athens , either by force or negotiation, recovered the bodies of the Seven at ...

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    Kate Middleton stepped out for the royal family’s annual Christmas day walk on December 25, arriving to church in Sandringham with Prince William as well as their kids, Prince George, Princess ...

  8. Oedipus Rex - Wikipedia

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    Of Sophocles' three Theban plays that have survived, and that deal with the story of Oedipus, Oedipus Rex was the second to be written, following Antigone by about a dozen years. However, in terms of the chronology of events described by the plays, it comes first, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone .

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