Theban Plays: Antigone

Theban Plays: Antigone (1986)

September 19th, 19861h 51min

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In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.


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