Citing the law in Sophocles's Antigone.(Critical essay)

Mosaic (Winnipeg) | September 1, 2008| | Copyright

The citizens of fifth century BCE Athens who wrote, produced, performed, watched, and judged Greek tragedy accepted certain anachronisms in the depiction of a mythological past that focused on the catastrophic lives of a few royal families. Among the most striking of these anachronisms is how democratic law making processes familiar to the Athenian audience (and a relatively recent political system) are retrojected into the monarchies of myth and legend. In Aeschylus's Suppliant Women, King Pelasgus, responding to the Danaids's petition for sanctuary, insists on seeking the ...

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