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enjoy the programs. Hello Antigone by Sophocles, 496 to 406 BC, is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies today,

and perhaps the most powerfully ambiguous.

Her uncle, Creon, King of Thebes, decrees that nobody should bury Antigand his brother a traitor on pain of death. She defies him.

And this conflict between generations between the state and the individual, uncle and niece,

autocracy and openness, releases an enormous tragic energy that brings sudden death and

for Creon a living death of grief.

With me to discuss Antigony are Lindsay Koo, senior lecturer in ancient Greek language and literature

at the University of Bristol, Oliver Taplin, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Oxford, and Edith Hall, Professor of

Classics at Durham University.

Edithal, what should we know about Sophocles at the time when he wrote this play. Sophocles is a well-born Athenian.

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