Who Is The Guard In Antigone

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These lines were taken from the play Antigone, which was written by Sophocles.
It’s spoken by The Guard to Creon, it was mentioned when the Guard enter to the palace. The speaker Guard try to tell the king Creon about the dead bodies burial. The Guard was safeguard the dead body after the king’s edict. which is ''none shall give him (the dead body) furnal … etc" so, he knows his task is his task. he see the body was buried by unknown. he just buried and away, and he sprinkled dry dust with all sacred rites

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