Sophocles, Antigone
An Ancient Greek play, Antigone displays the aftermath of a civil war where the two sons of the famous Oedipus, named Polynecies, and Eteocles, murder eachother, with their successor Creon, seeking vengeance against Polynecies’ disloyalty, and having to face the suicide of his wife, queen Eurydice. With its constant intellectual battles, betrayals, and emotive tragedies, Antigone explores the transience of power and the corruption of the individual, with it often illustrating the latter in an existentialist light.
