495-406 BCE (died same year as Euripides) Athens was a democracy (510 BCE) at the time of Antigone’s 1st performance (442) BCE Summary of Antigone: (The Chorus interpreted as the Elders of Thebes or the Audience) Antigone and Ismene, daughters of Oedipus, return to Thebes to help their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, avoid a prophecy after Oedipus died They arrive and discover that they killed each other Eteocles was given a proper burial, but Creon (present king of Thebes and Antigone’s uncle) banned the burial of Polyneices because he’s a “traitor” Antigone buries her brother and is caught - Creon locks her in prison to starve to death (PIETY- reverence to the Gods) Tiresias (blind prophet) and Haemon (Antigone’s fiance and Creon’s son) and the Chorus advise Creon to release her They all find that she killed herself so Haemon kills himself and Haemon’s mom kills herself, leaving Creon alone Important quotes: Antigone explains her actions: “One husband gone, I might have found another.but with my parents covered up in death, no brother for me, ever, could be born.
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