“Do I rule this state, or someone else?” Throughout Antigone, a play written by Sophocles in 441 B.C., the newly crowned king, Creon, constantly questions what it means to be a ruler. During a war between his home city of Thebes and a rival city, Oedipus’s two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, kill one another. Creon … Continue reading Law and Order in Sophocles’s Antigone