The sources of Antigone

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antigone 2 sources

Established laws concerning the gods and the dead · Prophecy of Teiresias

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

   book 4 2 passages anchored here

   Antigone's quoted line is used as a pagan parallel to the following claim that God, not Zeus, must be obeyed.

   And Antigone too, despising the proclamation of Creon, boldly says:

2. On the False Embassy Demosthenes 1 endorsed 1 citation · 3 passages

   on the false embassy 3 passages anchored here

   Demosthenes praises the lines and applies their political lesson to the case.

   But Sophocles’ Antigone was frequently acted by Theodorus, and also by Aristodemus;

3. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 24

   Sophocles' Antigone is explicitly cited and quoted for its speech on unwritten divine law.

   In the Tragedy of the Suppliants, Euripides calls it the law of the Gods, and in the Antigone of Sophocles, the heroine makes the following reply to Creon, who had forbidden any one under pain of death, to give the rites of burial to Polynices, “A prohibition, like this, was not revealed by the supreme will, nor by that heaven-born justice, which has established those laws of respect for the dead: