Biography Sophocles is an ancient Greek playwright. There is little information on him because of the
Aristotle once said that a Greek Tragedy must include an important person that has a flaw. By this flaw
Creon as the Tragic Hero: The Power of Moral Uncertainty The conflict between law and morality has been
The three Ancient Greek dramas, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, (both written by the playwright Sophocles), and
In Ancient Greek theatre one type of character that was commonly used in plays was the tragic hero. The
prominently it gives insight to the human condition. Greek mythology is used in the ancient times to interpret
The three Greek plays compared in this paper are the famously known Greek tragedies; Oedipus Rex and
Antigone, one of Sophocles’ three Theban plays, has the central theme of religion versus the law of
griefs and mine”(Antigone 1-8). The Burial at Thebes is a version of Sophocles’ Antigone translated by Seamus
Sophocles’ Antigone The character of Antigone in Sophocles’ play, Antigone, is one of the most controversial