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Antigone (Sophocles)

Antigone is a tragedy written in 442 B.C. by Sophocles. The heroine, Antigone, defies the tyrant Creon's orders that her brother's corpse lie unburied.

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translation by R. C. Jebb (http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone)

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