Antígona y sus circunstancias
ISSN: 1131-6810, 2530-8343
Year of publication: 2010
Issue: 21
Pages: 163-187
Type: Article
More publications in: Fortunatae: Revista canaria de Filología, Cultura y Humanidades Clásicas
Abstract
The play Antigone and its circumstances». Some facts and circumstances of the Pericles's politics in relation with certain aspects of the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles are shown in this paper. Several passages from Plutarch and two pieces of evidence concerning Sophocles support that hypothesis. The ostracisms of Cymon and of Thucydides of Alopece, the misuse of the Alliance's taxes for the goddess Athenea and the magistracies held by Sophocles would suggest that there were certain connections between the exercise of authority carried out by the mythic Creon and by the historical Pericles.