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Antigone: 441 B.C. To 1958 A.D., Sherry Gail Reynolds
Antigone: 441 B.C. To 1958 A.D., Sherry Gail Reynolds
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From 441 B.C. to 1958 A.D. is a long time, yet people have had basically the same problems for more years than that. In approximately 441 B.C., Sophocles wrote a story about a young girl who defied civil law in order to preserve the freedom of her convictions. In 1958 A.D., Mr. Dennis Holt restated this story in what he calls a "theatre poem." Antigone is considered to be perhaps the first important statement of "civil disobedience" in the western world.
Sophocles did not create the story. The content of the Oedipus trilogy, of which Antigone is a part, was …