Eteocles

the family due to the protagonist, Antigone conflicting with her uncle, also known as the King Creon. Ismene the sister of Antigone speaks about the conflict about their brother Eteocles and Polyneices. Both Eteocles and Polyneices had fought outside the walls of Thebes and killed each other. King Creon has ruled Eteocles body can be properly buried, while, Polyneices was believed to have been a traitor and is deprived of a proper burial. Antigone rebuts Creon’s decree of the improper burial of…

disgrace. This relates to the characters in the poem, Antigone. Antigone’s characters that include Eteocles, Polynieces, Ismene, and Antigone herself, all have characteristics or traits that define who they are as people, and if they have or represent honor or disgrace. Therefore, Antigone, the poem contains many events that involve honor and disgrace because each of these characters have certain…

manner by considering the other person with insolence. In other words, the behavior shown between one person and the other is the way in how they treat each other. Around 441 BC, Sophocles wrote the Antigone tragedy. In the play, Polynices and Eteocles were sons of Oedipus and Jocasta; they were the two brothers of the leading…

The story of Antigone has one main conflict and that would be the customary rite burial of Antigone's brothers Eteocles and Polyneices. Antigone has more loyalty towards her family rather than the loyalty to the state. Antigone says to Ismene that Creon has made it clear that he will give the proper burial according to Antigone and Ismene's family customary rites, but is not doing the same for Polyneices. Antigone asks Ismene if she would help her give Polyneices the proper burial, but she…

to be one. To provide context, Antigone’s story starts with her brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles. Since their father, Oedipus, had left the throne, they had been sharing it. It didn’t take much time for one to become greedy and try to keep the throne. This was Eteocles, and he took the throne and kept it, banishing his brother from the city. Polyneices then gathered an army and went to battle against Eteocles. But the thing is, it was foretold that if they were to fight, they would end up dying…

Eteocles had returned to Athens in ruin. 404 BC had seen the uproot of power in Greece. The Athenian navy had fallen with the addition of the Persian force in the great Peloponnesian War, and soon the city of Athens itself was near starvation, its people desperate and at the end of their ropes. There had been no other option but for Athens to turn tail and run, seceding victory to the Spartan forces and ending the war after over 30 years of sporadic and inconsistent battle. Peace suited Athens…

Oedipus (swollen foot) who was known for his wisdom and knowledge. He was the son of Laius (for his son killing him and a hero) and Jocasta (prophecy saying). Oedipus was the ruler of Thebes when he killed Sphinx the beast the was half lion and half lady. When his father first heard that Oedipus was going to kill him and marry his mother. So Laius told one of his servants to percies his ankles so he couldn’t walk and that's how he got his name Oedipus. His mother (Jocasta) handed the baby to a…

responsible for his downfall and suffering from the death of his loved ones. Pride is seen even before the play starts with Oedipus' sons, who were too prideful because they did not agree on the next ruler of the city of Thebes; Eteocles wanted to rule, as well as Polynices. Instead, Eteocles and…

Antigone, the protagonist and namesake of the play by Sophocles, is a courageous and ambitious character for unapologetically breaking laws of the city to do what she sees is right. Both of Antigone's brothers Eteocles and Polyneices have died in a war against each other, but only Eteocles is given a proper burial by the King. Antigone believes a burial is essential for someone to find peace after death, so she is reasonably upset. She decides that if no one else will do it, she will bury…

ruler of Thebes, Oedipus, stepped down and gave both of his sons, Eteocles and Polynices power to rule Thebes. The only condition was that they must alternate being king on a yearly basis. However, Eteocles refused to give up his power at the end of the year and exiled his brother Polynices from Thebes. In anger of being exiled, Polynices travels to the nearby city-states to gather an army to retake Thebes from his brother Eteocles. With the support of an army, Polynices marches on Thebes in an…