Myth Madness
Myths from around the world with some history on the people and civilizations that told them.
Myth Madness
Antigone - What Happened to Oedipus’s Daughters
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Nathan Rutherford
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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The battle between Eteocles and Polynices is over and the sons of Oedipus are dead. The fate of Oedipus’s daughters – Antigone and Ismene – is a less epic more personal tragedy story and is told in a handful of plays by the Greek playwright Sophocles. One of those tells how the willful Antigone felt she was duty-bound to ensure her brother Polynices got a proper burial. This brought her into tragic conflict with Thebes’ new regent, the powerful nobleman Creon.
This episode (60) retells stories from two plays by Sophocles
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Antigone