Kommos Episode 4: Review
for the glory of being true to her own law (816-22) without home or family, no one to weep for her ( ) cursed with her father’s legacy of pain & punishment -- her death is fated ( & Antigone goes to her death...
Antigone has... attacked man’s power/ chosen anger – led by passions – Antigone as rebel (872-85) chosen a brother over life – death, rather than life & marriage she goes to death for her reverence (938-40)
Fourth Stasimon: Literary Allusions – condemned, imprisoned Danae (as fated) Lycurgus (for angry jeering) Phineus & Cleopatra (to get rid of her, a convenience, children as victims of fate) Do these allusions glorify or condemn her actions?
Antigone not seen on stage again.
Episode 5: Climax
Tierisias, the blind prophet God’s deaf to his sacrifice (1011) Image of the birds ( ) Any human can go wrong (1024), must be willing to bend
Creon rejects Tiresias Creon’s Accusations –False prophecy –Taking money to tell fortunes Tiresias’s Warnings – Dire prophecies
Creon’s Recognition Chorus & Creon recall that T. prophesies always come true Pride – Giving in would be terrible – painful to pull back Asks the Chorus for advice... The gods send Harm racing after wicked fools...
Fifth Ode: Call upon Dionysus, Patron of Thebes
Creon’s Fall Messenger & Eurydice
Through exposition: 1.Burial of Polyneices 2. Goes to release Antigone 3. Antigone hanged 4. Haemon wailing 5. Drew sword, father rushes out 6. Haemon turns sword on himself
Creon arrives on stage... with Haemon’s corpse learns of wife’s death, body brought on stage she died cursing Creon
Final Ode: Creon & chorus