Antigone (Plumptre Translation)
Author: last_name: Sophocles
Language: English
Year: 1914

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, "Antigone" has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience.  Antigone's heroic resistance to Creon's petty, capricious, and unbending law has a never-ending relevance even in the third millennium CE.  The play was written at a time of national fervor. In 441 BC, shortly after the play was released, Sophocles was appointed as one of the ten gen