CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Odysseus, Heracleidae, Pelopia
11 Mar 2013
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Antigone: antigone was brought to creon and confessed to burying polynices. Asked if she knew about his decree; says she did it not as a defiance but because it was right, and traditionally a custom; says she follows divine law (gods law), not creon"s law. Antigone is sentenced to death and creon goes further by saying ismene must have been involved as well so she must die as well. Ismene told antigone previously that she wanted no part in burying polynices but when brought to see. Creon, she changes her story and says she had a part in burying polynices. Antigone tells ismene that she has no right to claim anything since you rejected it (trying to save ismene"s life). Creon has antigone placed in a sealed cave so that she would starve to death. Tiresias prophesizes again that haemon will die because of creon"s decree.
