Ismene refuses to help her, fearing the death penalty, but she is unable to dissuade Antigone from going to do the deed by herself.Ĭreon enters, along with the Chorus of Theban Elders. In the opening of the play, Antigone brings Ismene outside the city gates late at night for a secret meeting: Antigone wants to bury Polyneices' body, in defiance of Creon's edict. Antigone and Ismene are the sisters of the dead brothers, and they are now the last children of the ill-fated Oedipus. The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lay unburied to become the food of carrion animals. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honored and Polyneices disgraced. Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war, have both been killed in battle.
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