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ANTIGONE

ANTIGONE. Sophocles. He was educated with great care, according to the old Greek system, in which music, dancing, and gymnastics training played an important part. His instructor was Lamprus , a celebrated musician of the period, and a supporter of the antique and dignified style of music.

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ANTIGONE

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  1. ANTIGONE

  2. Sophocles • He was educated with great care, according to the old Greek system, in which music, dancing, and gymnastics training played an important part. • His instructor was Lamprus, a celebrated musician of the period, and a supporter of the antique and dignified style of music

  3. Sophocles was married to a wife named Nicostrata, by whom he became the father of Iophon. • 7 great plays of Sophocles: • . The Oedipus Rex (or Tyrannus) is a supreme example of unconscious irony and is regarded as the perfection of Greek tragedy. Oedipus at Colonus (his last tragedy), Electra, and Antigone, also rate high and were most popular on the Attic stage. The remaining three--Ajax, Trachiniae, and Philoctetes--are good but not so well known.

  4. He added the third speaking actor to the Greek stage - his great contribution to the Greek stage • wrote 123 plays • One of the most accessible of the central triangle of Greek tragedians: • Sophocles • Eurepedes • Aeschylus • The father of tragedy

  5. Aristotle ‘s Tragedy • is a story of a person’s fall from greatness. • Aristotle’s heroes-must be inherently good people who have good intentions. • They mus be in the end recognize their own responsibility for their behavior and accept their fate with dignity.

  6. Tragic elements/personality traits • Arete-possesses a particular type of excellence • Hubris- sense of pride • Ate-imprudence or recklessness • Peripeteria-a reversal of circumstances of turning point (e.g.send thir son away, the conversion of Paul on the road to Tarsus • Anagnorisis-when a character made a critical discovery.

  7. ANTIGONE • Literatures first feminist. • It stood 32nd among the plays of Sophocles

  8. THE STORY • The oracle’s proclamation • The shepherd takes Oedipus to the town of Corinth • Oedipus goes to an oracle in search of answers • Oedipus leaves Corinth • In the road he gets into a scuffle with a group from Thebes • O. ends up marrying Queen Jocasta and becoming the king. • a soothsayer reveals the truth

  9. ANTIGONE • The setting is a few decades after the tragic downfall of Oedipus in the midst of the Thebean civil war • The two sons of Oedipus, Polyneices and Eteocles were killed. • Creon becomes kingCreon orders that Eteocles be buried honorably but that Polyneices be left on the battlefield to rot

  10. Antigone brings Ismene outside the city gates late at night for a secret meeting • A Sentry enters, fearfully reporting that the body has been buried • She argues unflinchingly with Creon about the morality of the edict and the morality of her actions • Creon summons the girl Ismene • Haemongently tries to persuade his father to spare Antigone • Tereisiaswarns Creon that the gods side with Antigone.

  11. Creon accuses Teiresias of being corrupt • Teiresias’ warning • . He leaves with a retinue of men to help him right his previous mistakes

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