Broken Sisterhood: The Relationship between Antigone and Ismene in Sophocles' Antigone.

This investigation provides textual support for the view that, contrary to the interpretation recently advanced by Bonnie Honig, Antigone rejects Ismene in the prologue and persists in this rejection in the scene before Creon. Building on a pattern observed by Bernard Knox, I show that Sophocles emp...

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Published in:	Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 38; pp. 1 - 17
Main Author:	Hahnemann, Carolin
Format:	Article
Published:	Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies 2019
Subjects:	Antigone (Play : Sophocles) Sophocles, ca. 497 B.C.-406 B.C. Honig, Bonnie Antigone (Mythological character) Ismene (Greek mythology) Knox, Bernard Creon, King of Thebes (Greek mythology) Sisters in literature
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