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“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil.”
Teiresias
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What specific law does Antigone break in the play?
She buries her brother, Polyneices
Who wrote Antigone?
Sophocles
“It is the dead not the living, who make the longest demands: We die for ever…You may do as you like since apparently the laws of the god mean nothing to you.”
Antigone
What are you? Stupid??
Rhetorical question
Instead of killing Antigone, how does Creon punish her?
He sentences her to exile in a cave
What is Spider-Man's aunt's name?
Aunt May
“In flood time you can see how trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all.”
Haimon
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What happens to Haemon and Eurydice?
They both commit suicide
How many stomachs do ants have?
2 (one for self; one for colony)
“I swear by God and by the throne of God, the man who has done this thing shall pay for it! Find that man, bring him here to me, or your death will be the least of your problems.”
The other party stands on chaos, but this party is all about law and order.
Juxtaposition
Why does Creon decide to free Antigone and bury Polineices?
Teiresias tell him that it will bring hellfire from the gods and the Choragos reminds Creon that Teiresias is never wrong
What year was Antigone written?
441 BC
"We went back and brushed the dust away from the body. The flesh was soft by now, and stinking. So we sat on a hill...No napping this time!"
Sentry
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Chiasmus
Other than dust, what did Antigone sprinkle on Polyneices the second time she buried him?
Wine
Out of 300 known Greek tragedies, how many full plays survived the burning of the Library of Alexandria?
30 plays