From: Radical Teacher | Date: June 22, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Center for Critical Education, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Sophocles. Video with Irene Papas, directed by George Tzavellas, I.W. Films.

Sophocles' tragic play, Antigone, provides a potent antidote to the patriarchal and conformist undercurrents that accompany Western Civilization courses. Such courses lend themselves to highlighting the achievements of the great men of the West at the expense of women, working folks, and non-Western peoples. However, Antigone, as a teenage woman, excites students' imaginations with her defian...