Theater PDF EPUB Audio

Antigone

by Sophocles

Downloads: Under 100
First published: 1888
Pages: 51

Read online EPUB Download Save

Listen to Antigone Audiobook Free

1 h 24 min · 2 parts

Open the player

Part 1
48:22
Part 2
36:24

Antigone (1912) is a public domain work.

The audio edition streams in the page. There is no audio file to download.

Browse all free audiobooks

About this book

When the brothers Eteocles and Polynices kill each other in the fight for Thebes, the new king Creon honors one with burial and leaves the other to rot as a traitor, forbidding anyone to touch the body. Their sister Antigone refuses to obey. She buries her brother in defiance of the law, insisting that the unwritten commands of the gods outrank any edict of the state. Creon's pride will not bend, and the collision destroys them both, along with nearly everyone he loves. Written around 441 BCE, this is Sophocles' searching study of conscience against authority and family duty against civic order, a conflict that has kept the play alive for two and a half thousand years.

About the author

Sophocles

Sophocles (c. 497-406 BC) was one of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Athens. Of his many plays, seven survive, including the Theban plays centered on Oedipus and Antigone.