![]() ![]() ![]() Sophocles wrote three tragedies about Oedipus’ family, though they were never written or performed as a connected trilogy. The motif of the irreplaceability of a brother – as opposed to that of a husband or child – points to familiarity with Herodotus’ Histories, in which text we find a similar argument.Īntigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polynices by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu, c. It is not certain whether any other versions centered around the denial of burial to Polyneikes as the Antigone does, but it seems to have been Sophocles’ innovation. There existed different versions of the same myth, as authors chose to focus on different aspects of the material. Aeschylus too composed a trilogy about the tragic history of the Theban family, of which Seven Against Thebes is the only surviving play. Several ancient epic poems known as the Theban Cycle, now lost, dealt with the family history of the house of Oedipus. ![]() The basic subject material of the Antigone is drawn from Greek mythology. ![]()
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