ENGLISH 10 DAY 31. SOPHOCLES Tragedy ANTIGONE Greek Theater.
Sophocles’ Antigone 2
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Transcript of Sophocles’ Antigone 2
Sophocles’ Antigone 2
“I am no man”
Image from cover, Casey Dué The Captive Women’s Lament in Greek Tragedy
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AgendaAdventures in Critical Thinking
Creon’s Counselors…Recap and Update
Play and Its “Ideological Horizons” Winners and Losers
Gender in in the Antigone
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Adventures in Critical ThinkingCreon’s Counsillors…
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What to Tell the King?
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“… from the first there were some men in town / who took the edict hard.
These are the people — oh it’s clear to me — who have bribed these men and
brought about the deed.”“No current custom among men as bad / as silver currency.” (Creon pp.
168–9)
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Recap and Update
Play and Its “Ideological Horizons”
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BackgroundPlaywright and playHouse of Labdacus
genealogy…Oedipus and aftermath…
Oedipus the King (after 429)Oedipus at Colonus (406)Antigone (442/1)
Oedipus and Antigone
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Ideological Oppositions
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ANTIGONEthesis
femaleprivate
insideoikos (family, household, kinship)
lamentationdivine law
CREONantithesismalepublicoutsidepolis (politics, city)
retributionhuman law
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Syntheses or Reversals?
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ANTIGONEsynthesis (?)
masculine femaledivine law
(but doesn’t the comparison to Niobe contradict that?)
CREONsynthesis (?)feminized malehuman law(but isn’t maintenance of the oikos what it’s all about)
“I am no man and she the man insteadif she can have this conquest without pain”
(Creon, p. 175).
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Winners and Losers, or…
Gender in in the Antigone
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In Sophocles’ Antigone…
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If Antigone, along with all that she represents (including female
gender), wins, what of the play’s ideological horizons?
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Discussion more of a power
struggle more that creon lost
gender only really affecting creon
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