Antigone

The classic Greek tragedy about a woman who valiantly defies a tyrant to honor her brother and please the gods.When Polynices—a military leaders in Thebes''s civil war—dies on the battlefield, Thebes''s ruler, Creon, decrees that Polynices''s body will lie unburied and left as prey for the vultures. But Antigone, the late warrior''s sister, answers to a higher authority than the state, and breaks ...