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Putin and the dissident's body: Greek tragedy and Navalny's graveThis time he threatens the guards with death as well. Antigone repeats her act of familial piety, but the frightened guards catch her, and she is brought before Creon. The dictator won’t go back ...
Every year as Valentine’s Day approaches, people remind themselves that not all expressions of love fit the stereotypes of ...
Even though Polyneices is a power-hungry traitor who commits murder and wages war on his homeland, Antigone will defy the king and even risk her own death for her brother. “I will bury him ...
The new king, Creon, has decreed that mourning or providing a burial for the brother is punishable by death. Antigone must decide if she will risk it all to honor the dead or stay silent against the ...
His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus ... two years after Pericles' death. He specialized in what we would call political satire, and ...
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