Antigone Biography

Sophocles was born in 496 B.C.E in the deme colonus. He had grew up during the most brilliant intellectual period in Athens. He had two sons named Iophon and Ariston and also a wife by the name of Nicostrate.He was the son of Sophillus who was a wealthy amour manufacturer in the rural community of the Hippeios Colonus in Attica that was just outside of Athens.His artistic career had began in the earnest in 468 B.C.E when he had took the first prize in the Dionysia theatre competition that was over the reigning master of Athenian drama. Sophocles was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians who work had survived. Sophocles had scored the most wins in the dramatic competitions and had won the most important dramatic festival the Dionysia
Antigone tells Ismene that Creon has ordered that Eteocles who had died defending the city is to be buried with full honors while the body of Polyneices is left to rot.Creon has declared that anyone that attempted to bury Polyneices would be stoned to death public.Antigone had revealed to Ismene a plan to bury Polyneices in secret despite Creon's order. When Ismene had refused to defy the king Antigone had rejected her and goes to bury her brother.Creon had found out that someone has attempted to offer a ritual burial to Polyneices and wants the guilty person to be found and brought to him. When he finds out that Antigone, his niece, has defied his order, Creon is mad. Antigone makes an argument, declaring Creon's order to be against the laws of the gods themselves. Enraged by Antigone's refusal to submit to his authority, Creon wants her and her sister to to die.Haemon who is Creon's son who was going to marry Antigone wanted his father to think about his decision. The father and son had argued Haemon had accused Creon of arrogance and Creon had accused Haemon of weakness in siding with a woman. Haemon had left and was mad swearing that he wasn't coming back. He didn't admit that Haemon could of been right, Creon amends his pronouncement on the sisters Ismene was going to live and Antigone was going to be sealed in a tomb to die of starvation and not stoned to death by the city.The blind prophet Tiresias had warned