This tragedy and others performed in front of the demos fulfilled the crucial social and political role of facilitating a catharsis in the audience. Spectating the performance together somehow facilitated the whole or the unity of the polity.
One of the greatest poets ever — this is one of the most profound tragedies ever, that also reveals the important structure of tragic plot which Aristotle takes up in the Poetics.
Antigone is one of the Theban play and the other two are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus.
I am not an expert on ancient Greek translation so I’m not sure which edition is the best.
Sophocles. The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus. United States: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, (n.d.).
