num_pages: 48
description: Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.
language: English
title: Sophocles' Antigone
titlecomplete: Sophocles' Antigone
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: 144819
series: The Theban Plays
publisher: Pearson