Editing Antigone (section)

==Cultural references==
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In modern times, Antigone is invoked as a symbol of heroism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eliot |first1=George |editor-last1=Carroll |editor-first1=David |title=Middlemarch |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780192834027 |pages=795 |edition=Oxford World's Classics |quote=Antigone: In her defiance of the state she is often seen as a model of courage and heroism.}}</ref> The character of 'Ani' in ''[[True Detective]]'' season 2 is named after Antigone.<ref>{{cite book |title=True Detective and Philosophy A Deeper Kind of Darkness |date=2017 |publisher=Wiley |page=148}}</ref>

=== Adaptations ===
The story of Antigone has been a popular subject for books, plays, and other works, including:
* ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'', one of the [[three Theban plays|three extant Theban plays]] by [[Sophocles]] (497 BC{{snd}}406 BC), the most famous adaptation
* ''[[Antigone (Euripides play)|Antigone]]'', a play by [[Euripides]] (c. 480{{snd}}406 BC) which is now lost except for some fragments
* ''Antigone'' (1631)'','' <ref>{{Cite book |last=May |first=Thomas |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A07329.0001.001?view=toc |title=The tragedy of Antigone, the Theban princesse. Written by T.M. |date=1631}}</ref> a play by [[Thomas May]] 
* ''[[Antigona (Traetta)|Antigona]]'', opera by [[Tommaso Traetta]], libretto by [[Marco Coltellini]] (1772)
* ''[[Antigona (Mysliveček)|Antigona]]'', opera by [[Josef Mysliveček]], libretto by Gaetano Roccaforte (1774)
* ''[[Antigone (Mendelssohn)|Antigone]]'' (1841), settings of the choruses by [[Felix Mendelssohn]] as incidental music for a performance of [[Johann Jakob Christian Donner]]'s translation of ''Sophocles''
* ''Antigone'', opera by [[Arthur Honegger]] (1892–1955), libretto by [[Jean Cocteau]] (1889–1963)
* ''[[Antigonae]]'' (Salzburg 1949), opera by [[Carl Orff]] (1895–1982)
* ''[[Antigone (Anouilh play)|Antigone]]'' (1944), French adaptation of Sophocles's play by [[Jean Anouilh]] (1910–1987) performed during the Nazi occupation of Paris
* "[[Antigone-Legend]]", for soprano and piano (text by [[Bertolt Brecht]]), by [[Frederic Rzewski]] (1938–2021) and presented as a play in two slightly different versions in 1948 and 1951
* ''Αντιγόνη'' (''[[Antigone (Theodorakis)|Antigone]]''), ballet<ref>commissioned by the Royal Ballet, 1959</ref> by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] (b. 1925), 1959
* ''Αντιγόνη'' (''[[Antigone (Theodorakis)|Antigone]]''), opera by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] (b. 1925), 1995–96
* ''[[Antigone (Leeuw)|Antigone]]'' (1990/1991), opera by [[Ton de Leeuw]] (b. 1926)
* ''Antígona Furiosa'' (Furious Antigone), play by [[Griselda Gambaro]] (b. 1928)
* ''[[Another Antigone]]'', play by [[A. R. Gurney]] (b. 1930)
* ''Antígona'', play by [[Salvador Espriu]] (1939)
* "Antigone", a short story by [[Sheila Watson (writer)|Sheila Watson]] (1959)
* ''Tegonni, An African Antigone'' by [[Femi Osofisan]] (b. 1946)
* ''Antigone'', adaptation of Sophocles's play by Peruvian poet [[José Watanabe]] (b. 1946)
* ''Antigone'', opera by [[Mark Alburger]] (b. 1957) 
* ''[[Antigone (1961 film)|Antigone]]'' (1961), a film directed by [[Yorgos Javellas]], starring [[Irene Papas]].
* ''La tumba de Antígona'' (1967), philosophy work in poetry (razón poética) by [[María Zambrano]] (1904–1991)
* ''[[The Burial at Thebes]]'' (2004), by [[Seamus Heaney]], adapted into a 2008 opera with music by Dominique Le Gendre
* ''Antigone'', play by [[Mac Wellman]]
* ''Antígona Vélez'' (1950), adaptation of Sophocles' play by Argentine writer [[Leopoldo Marechal]] (1900–1970)
* ''Antigona'' (1960), a play by [[Dominik Smole]]
* ''Antigonai'' (2009), opera based on fragments by Sophocles and Hölderlin for three choirs and a women's trio by Argentine composer [[Carlos Stella]]
* ''[[Antigone (Brecht play)|Antigone]]'' (1948), by [[Bertolt Brecht]], based on the translation by [[Friedrich Hölderlin]] and published under the title ''Antigonemodell 1948''<ref name="Brecht">. 
{{cite book
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| first = Bertolt
| author-link = Bertolt Brecht
| year = 1948
| title = Antigonemodell 1948
| publisher = [[Gebrüder Weiss Verlag]]
| location = Berlin
| oclc = 1456885
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-y48AAAAMAAJ
| language = de
| lccn = 50056426
}}</ref> An English translation of Brecht's version of the play is available<ref> Malina, J. (1990) ''Sophocles’ Antigone''. New York: Applause Theatre Books</ref>
* ''Antigonick'', play by [[Anne Carson]] (2012) which is a free and poetic adaptation of the Sophocles play.<ref>Carson, A., (2012). ''Antigonick''. (illustrated by Stone, B.). New York: New Directions.</ref> Carson and her colleagues presented a reading of Antigonick in 2012 at the Louisiana gallery in Denmark.<ref>{{Citation|title=Anne Carson: Performing Antigonick|date=2013-01-28|url=http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/anne-carson-performing-antigonick|language=en-US|access-date=2021-08-13}} </ref>
* ''[[Antigone (2019 film)|Antigone]]'' (2019), a film by [[Sophie Deraspe]]
* ''Arch-Conspirator'' (2023), a [[Utopian and dystopian fiction|dystopian]] re-imagining by [[Veronica Roth]]

===Analysis===
In the works of [[Hegel]], in particular in his discussion of [[Sittlichkeit]] in his ''[[Phenomenology of Spirit]]'' and his ''[[Elements of the Philosophy of Right]]'', Antigone is figured as exposing a tragic rift between the so-called feminine "Divine Law," which Antigone represents, and the "Human Law," represented by Creon. 
The Catholic philosopher [[Jacques Maritain]] considers Antigone as the "heroine of the natural law:"
:she was aware of the fact that, in transgressing the human law and being crushed by it, she was obeying a higher commandment—that she was obeying laws that were unwritten, and that had their origin neither today nor yesterday, but which live always and forever, and no one knows where they have come from.<ref> Maritain, J. (edited by Sweet, W., 2001). ''Natural law: Reflections on theory and practice.'' South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press (p 26) </ref>
The psychoanalyst [[Jacques Lacan]] writes about the ethical dimension of Antigone in his Seminar VII, ''The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.'' Others who have written on Antigone include theorist [[Judith Butler]], in their book ''Antigone's Claim'', as well as philosopher [[Slavoj Žižek]], in various works, including ''Interrogating the Real'' (Bloomsbury: London, 2005) and ''The Metastases of Enjoyment'' (Verso: London, 1994).

===Contemporary productions===
A new translation of ''Antigone'' into English by the Canadian poet [[Anne Carson]] has been used in a production of the play (March 2015) at the [[Barbican Centre|Barbican]] directed by [[Ivo van Hove]] and featuring [[Juliette Binoche]] as Antigone. This production was broadcast as a TV movie on April 26, 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4653314/|title = Antigone at the Barbican|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref> The play was transferred to the BAM Harvey Theatre at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]], running from September 24 to October 4, 2015.<ref>[http://www.bam.org/theater/2015/antigone ''Antigone''] at Brooklyn Academy of Music.</ref>