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Antigone by Sophocles

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Biographical Information on Sophocles

The Oedipus Cycle

Summary of the Play

Text of Play

Civil Disobedience in Antigone


Biographical Information on Sophocles

Sophocles (b. ca. 496 bce- d. 406)

 

Few facts are known about Sophocles' life, however what is known is documented below: 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophocles  

 

 

The Oedipus Cycle

Antigone is the third and final play in The Oedipus Cycle, a series of plays depicting the life of Oedipus Rex and his children in Ancient Greece. 

 

 

To understand the play Antigone, one must have an understanding of the prior events in the Oedipus Cycle to build the context of the play.  

 

Recap of Oedipus Rex and its Themes (from 6:22-end) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7R36s4dbM 

 

Summary of the Play

"'Antigone' is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, written around 442 BCE. Although it was written before Sophocles’ other two Theban plays, chronologically it comes after the stories in “Oedipus the King” and “Oedipus at Colonus”, and it picks up where Aeschylus' play “Seven Against Thebes” ends. It deals with Antigone’s burial of her brother Polynices (Polyneices), in defiance of the laws of Creon and the state, and the tragic repercussions of her act of civil disobedience."

-From https://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_sophocles_antigone.html 

 

Image from a recent production of Antigone

 

Animated Summary of the Play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnoZmoZbjw                                                                     

 

 

                                                                                                                             

Text of the Play

 

 

Civil Disobedience in Antigone

 

Antigone is deeply connected to the concept of Civil Disobedience. When teaching this play, it can be related to this historical topic in a number of ways:

 

Blog Post on this Theme in the Play 

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/antigonescholarlyedition/lens-essays/vy-vo/ 

 

Civil Disobedience in America

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosa-parks-ignites-bus-boycot     

 

Rosa Parks performing one of the most well-known acts of 

                    Civil Disobedience in 1955

 

For more on Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, and civil disobedience, link to Origins, Goals and Events of the Civil Rights Movement

 

 

 

 

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