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Sophocles’ Antigone 2

Sophocles’ Antigone 2. “I am no man”. Image from cover, Casey Dué The Captive Women’s Lament in Greek Tragedy. Agenda. Adventures 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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Sophocles’ Antigone 2

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  1. Sophocles’ Antigone 2 “I am no man”

  2. Image from cover, Casey DuéThe Captive Women’s Lament in Greek Tragedy

  3. Agenda • Adventures in Critical Thinking • Creon’s Counselors… • Recap and Update • Play and Its “Ideological Horizons” • Winners and Losers • Gender in in the Antigone

  4. Adventures in Critical Thinking Creon’s Counsillors…

  5. What to Tell the King? “… 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)

  6. Recap and Update Play and Its “Ideological Horizons”

  7. Background • Playwright and play • House of Labdacus • genealogy… • Oedipus and aftermath… • Oedipus the King (after 429) • Oedipus at Colonus (406) • Antigone (442/1) Oedipus and Antigone

  8. ANTIGONE thesis female private inside oikos (family, household, kinship) lamentation divine law CREON antithesis male public outside polis (politics, city) retribution human law Ideological Oppositions

  9. ANTIGONE synthesis (?) masculine female divine law(but doesn’t the comparison to Niobe contradict that?) CREON synthesis (?) feminized male human law(but isn’t maintenance of the oikos what it’s all about) Syntheses or Reversals? “I am no man and she the man insteadif she can have this conquest without pain” (Creon, p. 175).

  10. Winners and Losers, or… Gender in in the Antigone

  11. In Sophocles’ Antigone… If Antigone, along with all that she represents (including female gender), wins, what of the play’s ideological horizons?

  12. Discussion • more of a power struggle • more that creon lost • gender only really affecting creon

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