num_pages: 116
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: Antigone
titlecomplete: Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
characters: Creon, Antigone, Tiresias, Haemon, Eurydice (wife of Creon), Ismene (sister of Antigone)
genres: Read For School, Mythology, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 144826
series: The Theban Plays
publisher: Oxford University Press