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Sophocles ’ Antigone 1

Sophocles ’ Antigone 1. “I am no man”. Agenda. Problems (cont’d) … Gender, Sexuality, Values, Ideology Shape of Course Where, When, What, How Sophocles’ Antigone Background, Approaches, Issues Discussion Gender, Values, Power. Problems (cont’d) ….

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Sophocles ’ Antigone 1

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

  2. Agenda • Problems (cont’d) … • Gender, Sexuality, Values, Ideology • Shape of Course • Where, When, What, How • Sophocles’ Antigone • Background, Approaches, Issues • Discussion • Gender, Values, Power

  3. Problems (cont’d) … Gender, Sexuality, Values, Ideology

  4. Finnis Nussbaum Issues / Thinkers Butler Foucault Essentialism Constructionism

  5. Shape of Course Where, When, What, How

  6. Greek World Italy Rome Athens Mediterranean Sea Roman Empire ca. 116 CE

  7. When… Greece, 550: BCE–CE 200 Periods covered in course Rome, 200 BCE–125 CE Trojan War ca. 1,200 BCE Rome founded 753 BCE Athenian democracy 400s–300s B.C. Roman Republic, Empire510 BCE–CE 476 1,000 BCE 1,000 CE

  8. What (cont.) • Greece v. Rome • Modernity v. antiquity • CONTINUITY V. SINGULARITY

  9. How? Through Critical… • Reading • Thinking • Writing • Papers • Journals

  10. Sophocles’ Antigone Background, Approaches, Issues

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

  12. 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

  13. Issues • Play as evidence • (historically situated?) • (ahistorical-universal?) • For … • sexuality • gender

  14. Approaches • Hegelian dialectic • thesis, antithesis → synthesis • Lacanian psychoanalysis • pure desire • heroic transgression • Judith Butler • next week…

  15. Discussion Gender, Values, Power

  16. Discussion Focus Clashing moral imperatives? Power struggle? Castration anxiety? Other? “I am no man and she the man insteadif she can have this conquest without pain” (Creon, p. 175).

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