Sophocles' Antigone, part three of the so-called Theban trilogy is perhaps the best example of all these fine Sophoclean tragedies to illustrate the Greek preoccupation with fate and how it rules the lives of men. In the play the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone is cast in a hopeless role to either obey the rigid, overbearing Creon who rules over the shaken city of Thebes, or obey her familial duty and bury her recently battle slain brother Polyneices.
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