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If the work of burial in part helps survivors move on, then the fact that this unburied corpse keeps turning up like a bad penny may be a way of showing how in the absence of proper burial, survivors cannot move on. The dead body’s return in bits and pieces to the city suggests also that Creon’s problem is not (just) his overzealousness but, again recalling a classic critique of democracy, his ineffectiveness. Notwithstanding his power as ruler, he simply cannot keep Polynices out of the city. Similarly, Antigone resists confinement within the household. In other words, the descendants of Oedipus can neither be kept out nor in.

So after second episode of the Final Season of AoT, I came up with this crazy reference. Remember Polyneikes and Eteocles? Two sons of Oedipus, cursed to kill each other, one is in Thebes, the other one outside, ready to attack the city (with his six friends, and neither ends up alive, well, tragoidia). BUT here in AoT we have, surprise, two brothers on two sides of the wall, willing to kill each other, am I right? Or am I just overinterpreting? 😂😂😂

When Antigone complains to Ismene that their brother Polynices is “to be left unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure for birds that scan the eld and feast to their hearts’ content” (28-30), Antigone re-cites the plight of Patroclus in the Iliad: “unwept, unburied” (22.386). Does she imagine herself –are we to imagine her– an Achilles, fated to die early and bereft of a brother/lover?

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