Antigone exploration Antigone is a play by Sophocles, and even though it happens last in the story, it was actually written before the other two plays in the Oedipus Trilogy. It was first performed a long time ago, around 441-442 B.C.E., but people still like it today because it talks about important things like making choices and not following the rules when they're unfair. Antigone is supposed to marry her cousin Haemon, and her uncle Creon is now in charge of her father's kingdom. But there's a big problem: Antigone's brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, killed each other in a fight. Creon says that Eteocles should have a proper hero's burial, but Polyneices (the traitor) should not. He even tells everyone in the city that everyone is forbidden to do any funeral rites for Polyneices. Antigone doesn't like this at all. She doesn't rebel just to be rebellious; she does it because she loves her brother and thinks it's unfair. She wants to do what's r...
