![]() ![]() On the contrary: just after the end of his discussion with Haimon, Creon sentences Antigone to be walled up alive in a cave. Creon imprisons Antigone, and his heart isn’t softened even by Haimon, his son, who is also Antigone’s fiancé. ![]() She refuses to apologize, claiming that it was always her divine right to bury a dead brother, and Creon’s edict was nothing more but a state document. Creon threatens him with death lest he finds the perpetrator and, later on, he does: it is, of course, Antigone, Creon’s niece. A while later, a guard tasked with watching over the body, informs Creon that someone has secretly performed burial rites. In the prologue of the play, Antigone tries in vain to persuade her sister Ismene to defy the decree, eventually leaving to bury Polynices by herself. ![]() It begins a day after the defeat of the Seven against Thebes, soon after Creon, the new ruler of the city, has announced that Eteocles, who has died defending the city, shall be buried with honors, but his brother, the traitor Polynices, shall be left for the dogs to devour. One of Sophocles’ earliest surviving plays, Antigoneis often thought of a perfect specimen of Ancient Greek tragedy. ![]()
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