shag wrote:
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> In Oedipus at Colonus (401 BCE), the middle play of the trilogy but written
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This is just a footnote and may or may not be actually relefvant.
BUT IT IS NOT A TRILOGY. Oedipus at Colonus tells us NOTHING about Antigone, which was written much earlier and long before Sophocles had any idea of writing the other plays. We have to assume tht his purposes in handling the legend had changed profoundly between the two plays. Antigone may be used to cst light on Oedipus at Colonus, but it is very doubtflu that the latter tells us anything about how to read Antigone.
Carrol
P.S. The protagonist of _Antigone_ is not Antigone but Creon. Antigone is the shape of Creon's doom, not the central character of the play.