![]() ![]() The events unfold in little more than twenty four hours. Thus Sophocles conforms to the principle of the unity of place. Although the play itself was written in 441 B.C., the legend goes back to the foundations of Hellenic culture, many centuries before Sophocles’ time.Īll the scenes take place in front of the royal palace at Thebes. The play is set in Thebes, a powerful city-state north of Athens. Furthermore, Antigone dies after defying King Creon. It illustrates how the curse on the House of Labdacus (who is the grandson of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, and the father of Laius, whose son is Oedipus) brought about the deaths of Oedipus and his wife-mother, Jocasta, as well as the double fratricide of Eteocles and Polynices. This tragedy is set against the background of the Oedipus legend. ![]()
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