Jiang frames the burial of the dead as a sacred matter in Greek belief because the unburied dead cannot find peace in the afterworld.
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Antigone
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jiang presents Antigone as arguing that human laws must conform to justice and cannot simply become legitimate because a ruler commands them.
Jiang presents Antigone's principle as divine, unwritten, immutable justice that human laws cannot override.
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"...So it's a very serious thing not to bury the dead. Antigone, who is the daughter of Oedipus, and the sister of Polyneses, she..."
"...sentences her to death for disobeying him. Okay? The problem is, Antigone is the fiancee of Haman, who is Creon's son. So Haman, the..."
"...and the greeks and their of your own people once the antigone day feel it is many sad still argia as she was there..."
"...hubris creates all sorts of problems. So remember in the play Antigone by Sophocles, the king Creon sentences Antigone to death even though it..."
"...talks to a fortune teller. And the fortune teller tells him, Antigone is right in this situation. You have to save her. If you..."
"...his anger and in his grief, he kills himself. So both Antigone and Haman are now dead. And when Haman's mother finds out about..."
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