POLI 100 Lecture 12: Citizenship and Tragedy Part 4
8 Feb 2017
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Antigone shows antigone and creon taking control over their own lives, but then the actions spiral our of their own control. Democracy was a relatively new social development in sophocles"" athens. After a long period of dictatorship, it began in the late 6th century b. c. A system was created in which the city was run by 10 generals, one from each of the 10 tribes. Pericles was one of the generals and he was very popular, even considered to be the. Pericles counselled in going to war, peloponnesian war. Some people grumbled that he didn"t need to establish a formal dictatorship he was well liked. Pericles as a general and politician dominated the athenian social and political scene at the time the play was written, while athens was in the early years of the peloponnesian war. Sophocles created a states man like him so he could given pericles a warning.
