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Antigone
Sophocles
Antigone buries her brother against Creon's decree and is walled up alive for it, and the play refuses to let either of them be simply right. Hegel read it as tragedy's purest case of two goods colliding. The link is to the Oxford volume collecting it with Oedipus the King and Electra.
Why you should read this
This Greek tragedy is a standard text in courses on political philosophy as well as literature, built around a conflict between civil law and personal moral obligation. Short enough to read in one sitting, with an argument dense enough to anchor a full seminar discussion.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 441 BCE
- Themes
- Greek TragedyLiterature
