Kommos Episode 4: Review

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KommosEpisode 4 Review
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Antigone goes to her death . . .

• for the glory of being true to her own law
  (816-22)
• without home or family, no one to weep for her
  (847-852)
• cursed with her fathers legacy of pain
  punishment -- her death is fated (856-870
  828-830

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Antigone has . . .

• attacked mans power/ chosen anger led by
  passions Antigone as rebel (872-85)
• chosen a brother over life death, rather than
  life marriage
• she goes to death for her reverence (938-40)

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Fourth Stasimon Literary Allusions condemned,
imprisoned

• Danae (as fated)
• Lycurgus (for angry jeering)
• Phineus Cleopatra (to get rid of her, a
  convenience, children as victims of fate)
• Do these allusions glorify or condemn her
  actions?

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• Antigone not seen on stage again.

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Episode 5 Climax
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Tierisias, the blind prophet

• Gods deaf to his sacrifice (1011)
• Image of the birds (1001-1005)
• Any human can go wrong (1024), must be willing to
  bend

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Creon rejects Tiresias

• Creons Accusations
• False prophecy
• Taking money to tell fortunes
• Tiresiass Warnings Dire prophecies

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Creons Recognition

• Chorus Creon recall that T. prophesies always
  come true. . . 1091-96
• Pride Giving in would be terrible painful to
  pull back
• Asks the Chorus for advice . . . The gods send
  Harm racing after wicked fools. . .

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• Fifth Ode
• Call upon Dionysus,
• Patron of Thebes

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Creons Fall

• Messenger Eurydice

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Through exposition

• Burial of Polyneices
• 2. Goes to release Antigone
• 3. Antigone hanged
• 4. Haemon wailing
• 5. Drew sword, father rushes out
• 6. Haemon turns sword on himself

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Creon arrives on stage . . .

• with Haemons corpse
• learns of wifes death, body brought on stage
• she died cursing Creon

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Final Ode Creon chorus