Antigone By: Sophocles Antigone begins as Antigone and Ismene talk about their brothers' deaths in the war. The one brother, Eteocles, was buried with great military honors, whereas the other brother, Polyneces, was left in the field to rot. Antigone was angered by this and was determined to bury him, even though the penalty was death by stoning. Antigone asked Ismene, her sister, for help with the burial, but Ismene refused. The next day a servant passing by noticed that someone, in an attempt to bury the corpse, had sprinkled dust over it. After a deba....

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