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Title:

'Because he took my deeds for insolence" - a few words on Antigone's guilt  
"Bo on me czyny uznał za zuchwałe" - kilka słów o winie Antygony

Creator:

Kotlińska-Toma, Agnieszka

Subject and Keywords:

Greek tragedy   drama   Sophocles   Antigone   Creon   Thebes  
tragedia grecka   dramat   Sofokles   Antygona   Kreon   Teby

Abstract:

This article aims to examine Sophocles’ play from the perspective of Creon as protagonist. Antigone, contrary to later modern interpretations, is not identified as upholding eternal divine law in confrontation with the laws of the state, but is rather shown as committing hybris, which destroys her and her relatives. The interpretation of Antigone, based on the presentation of the heroine as a blameless and courageous woman, who fights alone against an indisputably legitimate matter, is spurious. This of course does not alter the fact that this play functions in European culture in precisely this and in no other way. This alternative interpretation, though erroneous, has become the basis for so many philosophical, literary and even religious discussions, that it cannot be simply discarded.

Publisher:

Instytut Studiów Klasycznych, Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych

Date issued:

2015

Detailed Type:

czasopisma (wydawnictwa ciągłe)

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:79962   ISSN 0239-6661

DOI:

10.23734/WSC.2015.4.45.61

Language:

eng   pol

Rights holder:

Copyright by Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma

wwwDescription:

Charisteria Aliciae Szastyńska-Siemion octogenariae oblata ab amicis, collegis, discipulis