Defying King Creon's decree that her rebel brother Polynices lie unburied, Antigone buries him and is sealed alive in a tomb, setting off a chain of suicides that breaks Creon's house.
Books that mention Antigone (4)
Aftermath by Rachel Cusk: “There’s a moment in Sophocles’s play Antigone when something new is born, or rather, when one thing becomes two”
Artful by Ali Smith: “I was thinking about Antigone, the girl from Sophocles's Theban Plays who tried to bury her dead brother”
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: “Did you ever even read Antigone?”
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions, strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?”