-Admired by the people of Athens
-Respected Playwright
-Won 24 victories at the festivals we believe
-Content of Antigone - politically ‘good’
-Elected General - 2 or 3 times once in 440 BC (close after Antigone)
-Master of sympathy, politics and family lives
DETERMINED characters
Peloponnesian war-a three-phased war won by the Spartans
Athenian law - burial of traitors - not allowed to be buried in Athenian territory (not denied burial but excluded from the homeland).
In the aftermath of civil war, two brothers lie dead.
Only the one that fought for the city can be buried.
Only one man will take a stand against treachery.
Only one man will lose everything he holds dear.
Only one man will learn when to back down.
Sophocles’ Antigone
Seer, southsayer, clairvoyant, vaticinator, oracle, augur, sibyl