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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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04 Dec 2004 05:24:22 AM |
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OT: Antigone |
Red Thebes, Blue Thebes
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05WILLSL.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By GARRY WILLS
Published: December 5, 2004
HEGEL looms high over ''Antigone,'' as Freud looms over ''Oedipus
Tyrannus,'' and Sophocles must shift between them as he best may.
Hegel imposed the notion, now almost inescapable, that Antigone and
Creon embody opposite principles, she as the daughter of Oedipus and
he as the successor to Oedipus in the rule of Thebes. In Hegel's eyes,
Antigone stands for oikos (family) and Creon for polis (the state).
Antigone's brothers have slain each other in battle, Eteocles
defending Thebes, Polyneices attacking it. Creon orders that
Polyneices be denied burial as a traitor to his own city. Antigone
asserts her right to bury a member of her family. Hegel thought both
positions equally meritorious, and therefore flawed -- a thesis and an
antithesis calling for some higher synthesis.
THE BURIAL AT THEBES
By Seamus Heaney.
A Version of Sophocles' ''Antigone.''
79 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $18.
Antigone
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