Take “Antigone,” written in Athens in the fifth century B.C.E. The play opens with the title character mourning the death of her brother Polyneices, who betrayed her father and killed her ...

His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus ... two years after Pericles' death. He specialized in what we would call political satire, and ...

Hoping to bring understanding and peace to the war-torn land. Content Warning: Antigone does feature conversations about ...