Antigone

ISBN-13: 9780868198804 / Angielski

Sophocles

Opis

Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in ThebesOCO civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honoured and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brotherOCOs body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied to become the food of carrion animals. Defying CreonOCOs edict Antigone buries her brother and in so doing unleashes a terrible tragedy."