Write a paper that explores the familial expectations and roles of women in Sophocles’ context. How does this help make sense of Antigone’s actions in Sophocles’ play? Possible sources:
Batista, Mikaela, Ancient Greek Women: Weavers, Painters and Patrons (State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2016).
Zellner, H. M. “Antigone and the Wife of Intaphrenes.” The Classical World 90, no. 5 (1997): 315-18.
Closterman, Wendy E. “Family Ideology and Family History: The Function of Funerary Markers in Classical Attic Peribolos Tombs.” American Journal of Archaeology 111, no. 4 (2007): 633-52.
Kirkpatrick, Jennet. “The Prudent Dissident: Unheroic Resistance in Sophocles’ Antigone.” The Review of Politics 73, no. 3 (2011): 401-24. Accessed January 12, 2021.