1. The Good, the Bad, and the — What? Sophocles’ Antigone 2

2. Agenda Discussion (Antigone 1 cont’d) Of Good Guys and Bad Guys, Or Is It That Simple? Recap and Update Structure, themes, thought, character, act Performance Project An Impromptu Rehearsal...

3. Discussion (Antigone 1 cont’d) 17-Jun-153 Antigone Of Good Guys and Bad Guys, Or Is It That Simple?

4. Discussion 1: Issues and Conflicts Issues burial issue law versus morals what to do with ant hamartia game of thrones Conflicts Antigone/creon gods/creon creon/son tir/creon eteo/poly 17-Jun-154 Antigone

5. Discussion 2: Good Guys/Bad Guys Good Haemon innocent, but good? Bad Haemon (? defiant) 17-Jun-155 Antigone

6. Recap and Update Structure, themes, thought, character, act 7-Sep-2011 Antigone 2 6

7. Myth Background: House of Thebes 7-Sep-20117 Antigone 2 Labdacus OedipusJocasta PolynicesEteoclesIsmeneAntigone Menoeceus LaiusJocastaCreon Eurydice Megareus Haemon

8. Play Analysis (nums.= to Penguin pages) 8 Prologue (59 ff.) Antigone, Ismene (burial) Parodos (choral entry ode, 65 f.) victory song 1st episode Creon, Sentry (Polynices’ burial) 1st stasimon (choral ode, 76 f.) “Many the wonders …” 2nd episode Sentry, Creon; Creon, Antigone, Ismene (Creon-Antigone agōn) 2nd stasimon (91 f.) “Blest they who escape misfortune” 3rd episode (92 ff.) Creon, Haemon (agōn) 3rd stasimon (101) madness of erōs 4th episode (101 ff.) Choral dialogue (kommos) w/ Antigone (bride of death); Antigone, Creon 4th stasimon (108 f.) myth parallels to Antigone 5th episode (110 ff.) Tiresias, Creon (prophecy, warning, agōn) Hyporchema (choral ode, 118 f.) Dionysus save the day! Exodos (119 ff.) Messenger, Eurydice; Choral dialogue (kommos) w/ Creon 7-Sep-2011 Antigone 2

9. Thought, Character, Act Antigone “So, do as you like — / I will bury him myself. / And even if I die in the act, that death will be like a glory” (p. 63) Ismene “Then go if you must, but rest assured, … / you are truly dear to the ones who love you” (p. 64) Creon “She is the man / if this victory goes to her and she goes free” (p. 83) Haemon “… look less to my years and more to what I do” (p. 96) 7-Sep-20119 Antigone 2 ARISTOTLE “Thought”: dianoia. “Character”: ēthos. “Action”: drama.

10. Thought, Character, Act (cont.) Antigone Ismene Creon Haemon 7-Sep-201110 Antigone 2 ARISTOTLE “Thought”: dianoia. “Character”: ēthos. “Action”: drama.

11. 11 Antigone – Tragic Patterns Hubris (arrogance, transgression) “Zeus hates with a vengeance all bravado, / the mighty boasts of men” (Chorus, p. 65) Cycle of suffering “… once / the gods have rocked a house to its foundations / the ruin will never cease, cresting on and on” (Chorus, p. 91) Atē (delusion, ruin). Peripeteia (reversal) “Sooner or later / foul is fair, / fair is foul / to the man the gods will ruin” (Chorus, p. 92) Knowledge too late “Too late, / too late, you see what justice means” (Chorus Leader, p. 124) 7-Sep-2011 Antigone 2

12. Disturbed Dichotomies 7-Sep-201112 Antigone 2 ANTIGONE female private inside oikos (family, household) lamentation divine law CREON male public outside polis (politics, city) retribution human law CREON: “I am not the man, not now: she is the man / if this victory goes to her and she goes free” (p. 83)

13. Performance Project An Impromptu Rehearsal... 7-Sep-2011 Antigone 2 13

14. Performance Project... 7-Sep-201114 Antigone 2 http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~clas215/project.htm

15. Play Analysis (nums.= to Penguin pages) 15 Prologue (59 ff.) Antigone, Ismene (burial) Parodos (choral entry ode, 65 f.) victory song 1st episode Creon, Sentry (Polynices’ burial) 1st stasimon (choral ode, 76 f.) “Many the wonders …” 2nd episode Sentry, Creon; Creon, Antigone, Ismene (Creon-Antigone agōn) 2nd stasimon (91 f.) “Blest they who escape misfortune” 3rd episode (92 ff.) Creon, Haemon (agōn) 3rd stasimon (101) madness of erōs 4th episode (101 ff.) Choral dialogue (kommos) w/ Antigone (bride of death); Antigone, Creon 4th stasimon (108 f.) myth parallels to Antigone 5th episode (110 ff.) Tiresias, Creon (prophecy, warning, agōn) Hyporchema (choral ode, 118 f.) Dionysus save the day! Exodos (119 ff.) Messenger, Eurydice; Choral dialogue (kommos) w/ Creon 7-Sep-2011 Antigone 2 19 (final kommos) 7 13 (msg on Ant & Hae) 3 (Cr’s reversal) 1 1 (afer Tir’s exit)

16. Performance Issues what to do with the bodies? the emotions of creon – how to show? how not to over-do? 7-Sep-201116 Antigone 2