Tragic Ambiguity: Anthropology, Philosophy and Sophocles' Antigone

able accept According Aeschylus ambiguity animals Antigone Antigone's aspects awesome become believe belong body boundaries brings called character chorus civilization clear conception confined confronted confusion connected considered controlled cosmology cosmos Creon culture dangerous death destruction difference Dionysus distinction divine emphasized Eros Eteocles evil example fact fate father final force fundamental gods Greek hand harmony heroes hope human idea implies important impossible inevitable insight interconnected interpretation Ismene Jebb justice killed king knowledge Lévi-Strauss living maintains man's marginality meaning merely mortals Müller myth nature Oedipus opposition philosophy point of view pollution Polyneices position possible principles problem rational reality realize refers relations remain represents respect result ritual Rohdich says sense separation shows social Sophocles sphere stasimon structural substitute thinking tion Tiresias tragedy tragic transformation transgression true truth turn unable undermining unity whole wild Zeus