Lecture 6: Introduction to Sophocles, Athenian Tragedy, and Antigone (Lines 1-1352)
Alexander Schmid Podcast
English - March 11, 2020 01:06 - 30 minutes - 34.8 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Dante's The Divine Comedy 2019/2020 Lecture 40: Dante's Paradiso Review Lecture: Cantos 1-33
In this lecture, we cover the major plot-points of Sophocles' "Antigone." We consider (a) its chronology in relation to the other two plays from "The Theban Trilogy" which was never meant to be a trilogy; (b) considered Antigone's argument for burying her brother, Polyneices, against the edict of her uncle and the new King of Thebes, Creon; and (c) we considered the position of Creon as a new ruler with a potentially tenuous hold on power.
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