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Antigone Antigone is a Greek drama, part of the House of Thebes trilogy written by Sophocles in the early fifth century BC. The drama has a lot of relevance to today's society due to the themes of Moral Law vis a vis State Law. At this point, Thebes was in civil war after Eteocles and Polyneices (both brothers) argue about who should rule the kingdom after their father. Polyneices is exiled and returns with an army to fight his brother and both are killed. At the beginning of the play the current ruler is Creon and he has made a decree that since Polyneices fought against the ruler of Thebes he shall be unburied whereas his brother is to be buried with full military honors. Antigone is the youngest daughter of Oedipus and sister too the two dead brothers. At the start of the play Antigone, has just found out, ahead of...

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