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    This article discusses how Sophocles' play Antigone explores issues of class and social status through the treatment of Polyneices' body and his denied burial. While Creon refuses Polyneices a proper burial due to his treason, Antigone defies Creon and insists on burying her brother according to religious rites. The article analyzes how the conflict represents tensions between the aristocracy and common people in ancient Athens regarding funeral rites and social standing.

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    This article discusses how Sophocles' play Antigone explores issues of class and social status through the treatment of Polyneices' body and his denied burial. While Creon refuses Polyneices a proper burial due to his treason, Antigone defies Creon and insists on burying her brother according to religious rites. The article analyzes how the conflict represents tensions between the aristocracy and common people in ancient Athens regarding funeral rites and social standing.

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    Citation 299025360

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    This article discusses how Sophocles' play Antigone explores issues of class and social status through the treatment of Polyneices' body and his denied burial. While Creon refuses Polyneices a proper burial due to his treason, Antigone defies Creon and insists on burying her brother according to religious rites. The article analyzes how the conflict represents tensions between the aristocracy and common people in ancient Athens regarding funeral rites and social standing.

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    Kawalko Roselli, David. (2006).

    Polyneices' body and his monument: Class, social


    status, and funerary commemoration in Sophocles' 'Antigone'. 33. 135-177.

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