NOTE- this essay is about Sophocles' earlierst of the three Theban play called the Anitgone. the focus is on the character traits of the main chatacters of the play, most especially of antigone and creon. it begins with a general introduction the greek theatre of the time (the fifth and sixth centuries BC)giving an outline of what theatre meant to the people of ancient greece as well as what it meant to the writers …showed first 75 words of 2438 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2438 total…good at heart. As Bernard Knox quote earlier showed, Antigone is the real hero of the play, an admirable thing for being a woman in that day, and this shows that Character traits are the essence of the play. Bibliography Sophocles (1984) The Three Theban Plays Translated by Robert Fagles, Introductions and Notes by Bernard Knox. Pengions Bookx Ltd, Middlesex England. Knox Bernard (1964) The Heroic Temper. University of California Press CA USA, Cambridge University Press England.