From your reading of Sophocles’ Antigone in Greek Tragedies I and in Thucydides in the Portable Greek Historians , please answer the following Essay questions completely. Please complete this take-home quiz, print it out on paper and return it during class on April 13, 2023.
I.
a) With respect to the Antigone of Sophocles,
b) What, at the beginning of the tragedy, is Antigone discussing with her sister, Ismene?
c) What has happened to Antigone’s two brothers prior to the beginning of the play?
d) What does Antigone say that she will do for her brother, Polyneices, even though it has been forbidden by the king, Creon?
e) At lines 225 and after of the Antigone , Creon is informed by a Guard that something has taken place. What has taken place?
f) Later in the play (lines 385 and after), after Antigone is caught, what does King Creon say that he will do to her?
g) Who is Haemon and what does he counsel his father, Creon to do?(10)
II.
a) At lines 988 and after, what is Teiresias’ role in the Antigone ?
b) What does he counsel Creon to do?
c) What does Creon do then and do his actions happen too late?
d) What happens to Antigone; Haemon; Eurydice (Creon’s wife); and. Creon at the end of the tragedy? (10)
III.
a) Why did Thucydides believe that the War between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians would be a great war and one worthy of relation (three reasons).
b) What are two statements Thucydides made in relation to the speeches? c) Why did Thucydides (one reason) write his work (of history)? (Thucydides, pp. 218-19; pp. 230-231)?
IV. In the funeral oration of Pericles, summarize four major differences between the Athenians and Spartans that according to Pericles make Athens superior. (Thucydides, pp. 265-273)?
