Thebes

was given the position of commander of the Macedonian troops. When he reached 20, he succeeded his father to the throne by popular election. The Battle of Chaeronea was one of his first victories. He surged forth into the city and took control of Thebes. In the…

idea instead of saying it. In Antigone the famous play written by Sophocles, Antigone and her sister Ismene also Oedipus’s children decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers, Eteocles and Polynices to avoid the fate that displays they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes. But upon her arrival in Thebes, Antigone learns that both of her brothers are dead. Eteocles has been given an…

statue in Vienna. Athens (or Athenae) is in plural form, because it represents thesisterhood of the goddess that existed there.Similarly, Athena was called Mykene in the city of Mycenae (alsoa plural after the respective sisterhood), and Thebe in the cityof Thebes (or Thebae, both plural forms).The Shrine of the Goddess Athena houses: the Museum of theGoddess Athena were can be found information about all existing objectsrelated with the Goddess from the Archaic Period to the present;an…

prophecy by leaving him to die on a mountaintop. A servant feels pity for the baby, and gives him away to another king so that he will not have to die. Years later, Oedipus hears the same prophecy about himself, and runs away from home. He ends up in Thebes, and marries the Queen…

Sophocles’ use of dramatic irony is accumulated from the very beginning of the play. Oedipus, to convince and assure the people of Thebes of their safety following the unspeakable wrath of the death-wrenching plague that had scoured upon the land, claims to fight for the late King Laius “as [he] would for [his] own father” (KO 33). Oedipus, without knowing the truth of his ancestry…

persuade them into helping her. Antigone uses an emotional appeal to try to convince her sister Ismene to help her bury their brother Polyneices. Antigone and Ismene had two brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles. Eteocles defended his home kingdom of Thebes, however Polyneices was a traitor, and…

In 1516, Thomas More published his famous work, Utopia, a novel that described a society that were perfect in every aspects, and the idea became the definition of the word “utopia.” However, More himself admitted that such perfect society was impossible. In fact, he used the word “utopia” because it both meant “good place” and “no place.” Interestingly, this idea was not new. About a decade ago, it was the central theme in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tale. During the period of the story,…

Oedipus from the tragic “Oedipus Tyrannus” by Socrates is a great example of a tragic hero. He saved the people of Thebes from the daunting hands of the Sphinx. Due to his heroic act he became the kind of the city. However, he had always been tied by the prophecy given by the gods. The prophecy stated that he would murder his father and marry the women that bore him. This tragic fate caused many complications within Oedipus’s life, indicating its place in Aristotle’s characteristics of a tragic…

What purpose is there of having a ruler if he can’t enforce his authority? Creon, the new king of Thebes, faces this same issue in Antigone by Sophocles, after the last king’s brother, Polyneices, started a war and perished along with the king, Eteocles. As the new king, Creon decrees that Polyneices, a traitor, shall not be buried, which angers Polyneices’s sister, Antigone, who buries Polyneices anyway. Creon orders her to be put to death, a reasonable punishment in order to protect his…

In the play Antigone, women play a very strong role in the happenings and structure of the city of Thebes. Ismene and Antigone, the two sisters in this play, are conflicted with the choice of going against the society and rules of the city, or following the rules and doing what is expected of them. In this play, we see the difference between Antigone and Ismene’s thoughts and actions, and why they do the things that they do. This play was written in Ancient Greece during the 400s BC. During this…