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Sophocles’ Antigone 2
“I am no man”Slide2
Image from cover, Casey
Dué
The Captive Women’s Lament in Greek TragedySlide3
AgendaAdventures in Critical Thinking
Creon’s Counselors…
Recap and Update
Play and Its “Ideological Horizons”
Winners and Losers
Gender in in the Antigone
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Adventures in Critical ThinkingCreon’s
Counsillors
…
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What to Tell the King?29-Aug
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“… from the first there were some men in town / who took the edict hard. These are the people — oh it’s clear to me — who have bribed these men and brought about the deed.”
“No current custom among men as bad / as silver currency.” (Creon pp. 168–9)Slide6Slide7
Recap and UpdatePlay and Its “Ideological Horizons”
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Background
Playwright and play
House of Labdacus
genealogy…
Oedipus and aftermath…
Oedipus the
King
(after 429)
Oedipus at
Colonus
(406)
Antigone
(442/1)
Oedipus and AntigoneSlide9
Myth Background: House of Labdacus
Labdacus
Oedipus
Jocasta
Polynices
Eteocles
Ismene
Antigone
Menoeceus
Laius
Jocasta
Creon
Eurydice
Megareus
Haemon
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Ideological Oppositions
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10
ANTIGONE
thesis
female
private
inside
oikos
(family, household, kinship)
lamentation
divine law
CREON
antithesis
male
public
outside
polis
(politics, city)
retribution
human lawSlide11
Syntheses or Reversals?
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11
ANTIGONE
synthesis
(?)
masculine female
divine law
(but doesn’t the comparison to Niobe contradict that?)
CREON
synthesis
(?)
feminized male
human law
(but
isn’t maintenance of the oikos what it’s all about)
“I am
no
man and she the man instead
if she can have this conquest without pain” (Creon, p. 175).Slide12
Winners and Losers, or…Gender in in the
Antigone
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In Sophocles’ Antigone…
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13
If
Antigone, along with
all that she represents (including female gender
),
wins, what
of the
play’s ideological horizons
?Slide14
Discussionmore of a power struggle
more that
creon
lost
gender only really affecting
creon
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