The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigone was seen by the French as theatre of the resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance...

Oedipus' sons have slain each other on the battlefield, but Kreon, their uncle and Thebes's new ruler, has decreed that only Eteokles be buried. Polyneikes will be left to rot—the greatest dishonor imaginable for a Greek warrior.

Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone-together known as The Oedipus Cycle. One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocles's immortal series of plays centers upon the royal family of Thebes, whose struggles for nobility and greatness lead paradoxically to their own tragic downfalls. Portraying humankind at its worst...

Cinematic interpretation of Sophocles' immortal tragedy with a cast of over 500 actors of the Greek stage and screen, as well as soldiers and horsemen of the Greek Royal Guard. In the aftermath of a bloody civil war that fatally pitted her two brothers against each other, Antigone defies a direct edict from Thebes' King Creon. Her defiance of Creon and devotion to her shattered family divides the city of Thebes, threatens her sister's betrothal to...