<p> Vandiver Lecture Twelve - Antigone and Creon</p><p>Chronologically, the story of Antigone comes after the story of Oedipus. It makes sense to study Antigone before the Oedipus plays, though, because Sophocles wrote it first. Thus, Antigone represents</p><p>Many tragedies are set in Thebes. Froma Zeitlin suggests that Thebes is an "anti-______" because 1.</p><p>2.</p><p>This is well illustrated by Antigone because</p><p>To leave a body unburied is a terrible punishment to the ancient Greeks because</p><p>Like Chrysothemis in Elektra, Ismene ______, but</p><p>In the end Creon changes his mind--not because of his son's arguments, but because On one level, the conflict between Creon and Antigone is the conflict between oikos and polis.</p><p>By representing ______, Antigone is</p><p>By representing ______, Creon is</p><p>The categories of oikos and polis are interwoven and confused here because</p><p>Creon is</p><p>Antigone is</p><p>Modern productions tend to trivialize the play because </p><p>What, exactly, did Polynices do?</p><p>Creon's edict is meant to do two things:</p><p>Display</p><p>Deter As King, Creon cannot allow</p><p>The play is also trivialized if Antigone</p><p>Antigone was a disturbing figure to the Athenian audience because she is</p><p>A young unmarried girl who</p><p>A citizen who</p><p>A woman who</p><p>Antigone considers herself bound by "higher laws." In effect, what this means is that this is the first drama on the topic of</p><p>Taken to the extreme, Creon's position leads to </p><p>Taken to the extreme, Antigone's position leads to</p><p>Tiresias says Creon has confused the world of the living with the world of the dead in two ways.</p><p>1.</p><p>2.</p><p>Creon's crucial mistake was to forget</p><p>The fact that Antigone is proven right does not make her less ______. We see that the chorus</p><p>Creon is actually more The play demonstrates that</p><p>The topic had immediate relevance in Sophocles' day because</p><p>The sophists were usually described as itinerant teachers of rhetoric and argumentation, which were useful things to learn, but they made many people uncomfortable because</p><p>Protagoras the sophist is most famous for his dictum that man is ______</p><p>______, which probably means</p><p>The sophists also questioned the validity of oracles, which</p><p>The sophist controversy applies to Sophocles' "Ode to Man" because</p><p>The word deinos</p><p>Shipbuilding</p><p>Agriculture</p><p>When the choral ode says that man cannot escape from death, the ode turns toward</p>