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Digireads.com Antigone by Sophocles Translated by E H Plumptre
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. Creon Antigones uncle succeeds to the thrown and declares that no one may bury Polyneices under penalty of death. Antigone disregards this order and buries Polyneices and is willing to face the consequence for doing so. As a result Creon must choose between what he believes to be his civic duty and his personal loyalty to his family.show more