Antigone by Sophocles

Antigone

Sophocles with E. H. Plumptre (Translator)

80 pages first pub -441 (editions)

fiction classics play dark emotional reflective fast-paced
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Antigone by Sophocles is ideal for readers drawn to intense moral dilemmas and the emotional tumult of defying authority for personal conviction, set against the backdrop of timeless familial and societal conflict.

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The second story in the Oedipus Trilogy, "Antigone", examines the conflict between public duty and personal loyalty. Following the banishment of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices kill each other over a dispute of succession to the thrown of Thebes....

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