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Antigone

Sophocles

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 441 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Ancient Greek
Pages
Pages 45

A king decrees that a traitor's corpse be left unburied; the dead man's sister buries him anyway, and neither she nor the king will yield until the cost empties his house.

Many wonders there be, but naught more wondrous than man;
Antigone, Sophocles

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