Creon's refusal ruins his exalted view of his father.Bust of Sophocles in the Colonnade of the Muses in the Achilleion, Corfu, Greece, July 2011. In the first, he is rejected by Antigone in the second, he begs his father for Antigone's life. Haimon Antigone's young fiancé and son to Creon. she wont do the task that antigone wants to do and bury polyneikes. In Sophocles' Antigone, she kills herself after learning that her son Haemon and his betrothed, Antigone, had both committed suicide, from a messenger.

Eurydike wife of Creon, a king of Thebes. Eteokles Elder son of Oedipus and refused to step down from power to let his brother take the throne for the next six months. Himself and six foreign princes marched on Thebes. After the first year, however, Eteocles, the elder, refused to step down.

Polyneikes Upon Oedipus' death, it was agreed that each would take the throne from one year to the next.

Peripeteia a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances Catharsis the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for. Korinth an ancient city in Greece, one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities Unity of action The play should have 1 main action that it follows Unity of time The play should be within a span of 24 hours Unity of place The play should be in 1 certain place or setting Ethos(3 unities of greek tragedies) Credibility pathos Appeal to emotion logos Appeal to logic Mythos plot/story Ethos(6 elements of drama) character Dianoia Main theme/idea Lexis Dialogue Melos Music/rhythm Opsis Spectacle Anagnorisis a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Thebes an ancient city in Upper Egypt, on the Nile, whose ruins are located in the modern towns of Karnak and Luxor: a former capital of Egypt. bound to ideas of good sense, simplicity, and the banal happiness of everyday life. As he tells Antigone, his only interest is in political and social order. A practical man, he firmly distances himself from the tragic aspirations of Oedipus and his line. powerfully built, but a weary and wrinkled man suffering the burdens of rule. Unlike her beautiful and docile sister, she is sallow, withdrawn, and recalcitrant. In the first moments of the play, she is opposed to her radiant sister Ismene.

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