antigone

It’s like putting a script of Antigone and a sex advertising graffiti in Pompeii on the same level.

Clearly Sophocles is a pretty standup guy and Antigone is sympathetic, so it makes sense.

Which is why you can set Romeo and Juliet in 20th century America, or Antigone in space - as many have done, and the heart of the work is still there just fine.

The argument from Antigone is less compelling.

Or, for a more obscure example, that Antigone should just have said 'yes daddy' and left it at that with the play ending somewhere in the initial conversation with Ismene.

Counter-example: the play Antigone by Sophocles.

The recent Meta lawsuits also mention opposition from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Meta's own executives: Monika Bickert (head of content policy) and Antigone Davis (global head of safety).

Anyway, one enduring argument for mercy is that can be exercised on those rare occasions where there is some overwhelming contextual argument for why the general law should be overridden, e.g., the Greek play Antigone is effectively built around just such a case.

* Die Vorstadtkrokodile * Faust I * Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum * Antigone * Die Verwandlung * Bahnwärter Thiel * Der Sandmann * Die Räuber * Hamlet * Der Besuch der alten Dame * Im Westen nichts Neues * Unterm Rad * Woyzeck Im probably missing 5 books or something like that.

> The context of the Iliad, ancient Greece, is completely alien to the modern US, just as it is to modern China I was taught Greek mythology in grade school, read the Odyssey and Iliad in middle school English, Antigone and Oedipus Rex in high school, and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice was a recurring theme in some college courses but that's a bit specific.

I find it idiotic to assign any value to outputs like "Oh King Lear's X is highly correlated to Antigone's Y"

It would be like putting on a feminist production of Antigone, or a pacifist recitation of the Iliad, or an anti-racist production of Othello - not only “already done” but probably what the author intended.

Even Creon in Antigone, while fairly difficult to like, does what he does with fundamentally noble intentions.

Antigone runs open-access articles on anything to do with the Greeks, Romans and what the world has made of them since.

Antigone by Sophocles) there is a strugle between Human law and God's law (e.g.