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Title: Sophocles Antigone


1
Sophocles Antigone
  • A Heroine for Whose Time?...

2
Agenda
  • Course
  • Aims, Communication, Oral Reports
  • Sophocles Antigone
  • Background, Approaches, Issues
  • Sexuality/Gender in Antigone

3
Course
  • Aims, Communication, Oral Reports

4
Sophocles Antigone
  • Background, Approaches, Issues

5
Background
  • Playwright and play
  • House of Labdacus
  • genealogy
  • Oedipus and aftermath
  • Oedipus the King
  • Oedipus at Colonus
  • Antigone

Oedipus and Antigone
6
Myth Background House of Labdacus
Labdacus
Menoeceus
Laius
Jocasta
Creon
Eurydice
Oedipus
Jocasta
Polynices
Eteocles
Ismene
Antigone
Haemon
Megareus
7
Approaches
  • Hegelian dialectic
  • thesis, antithesis ? synthesis
  • Lacanian psychoanalysis
  • pure desire
  • heroic transgression
  • Judith Butler
  • next time

8
Gendered Antinomies
  • ANTIGONE
  • thesis
  • female
  • private
  • inside
  • oikos (family, household, kinship)
  • lamentation
  • divine law
  • CREON
  • antithesis
  • male
  • public
  • outside
  • polis (politics, city)
  • retribution
  • human law

CREONI am not the man, not now she is the man
/ if this victory goes to her and she goes free
(p. 65)
9
Issues
  • Play as evidence
  • (historically situated?)
  • (ahistorical-universal?)
  • for
  • sexuality
  • gender
  • What does
  • Antigone model/embody?
  • Creon?

10
Sexuality/Gender in Antigone
11
Your turn What is
  • Sexuality?
  • traits not specific to biological sex
  • sex not same as sexuality
  • choice (free will)
  • sexual preference
  • Gender?
  • male v female
  • biological sex
  • role, self-presentation
  • blur lines
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