num_pages: 292
description: Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. When Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, chooses to obey the law of the gods rather than an unconscionable command from Creon, ruler of Thebes, she is condemned to death. How the gods take their revenge on Creon provides the gripping denouement to this compelling tragedy, still one of the most frequently performed of classical Greek dramas. Footnotes.
language: English
title: The Antigone of Sophocles
titlecomplete: The Antigone of Sophocles
characters: Antigone, Ismene (sister of Antigone), Eurydice (wife of Creon), Creon, Tiresias, Haemon
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Read For School, High School, Mythology, Literature, School
ratings_count: 144818
series: The Theban Plays
publisher: Cambridge University Press