Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traito This finely-tuned translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Richard Emil Braun, offers an interpretation informed by exemplary scholarship and critical insight. Braun's translation highlights the extraordinary structural symmetry and beauty of Sophocles' design by focusing on the balanced and harmonious view of tragically opposed wills that makes the play so moving.
