Category Archives: Antigone

Antigone, Redux

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Tommy Collison

I’m co-hosting a discussion series on the great books over on the Interintellect, and we have two “sessions.” We do the same 15-book syllabus, but we have two groups staggered across a month: we discussed The Iliad with Group 1 … Continue reading →

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“Good lives are made so by discipline.” Morals in Antigone (Sophocles)

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Tommy Collison

This post contains spoilers. “Antigone in front of the dead Polynices” by Nikiforos Lytras, 1865. Antigone is a short play, first performed circa 450 BCE, that deals with open-ended questions around the power of the state, divine law versus moral law, and … Continue reading →

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