The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy - 2 Author:Pierre Brumoy Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1759 Original Publisher: Millar Subjects: Greek drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Millio... more »n-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TRAGEDY Of SOPHOCLES. ANTIGONE is a fubject: fo nearly connected with the The- baid, that one is unintelligible without the other. Eteocles and Polynices, the Tons of Oedipus, had agreed to mare the fcepter of Thebes between them, and each to reign ayear alternately. Eteocles the firft poffefTor, having talled the fweets of dominion, found himfelf not difpofed to obferve the treaty. He maintained himfelf upon the throne; and Polynices to recover his right entered Thebes at the head of an army of Argives: after a long and obftinate battle, the two. brothers agreed to decide their pretenfions in a fingle fight, in which both fell. Creon, their uncle, aflumed the crown; but the firft eflay he made of the fupreme power, was to publifh a decree, forbidding any perfon to bury Polynices, who he declared worthy of this infamous punifhment, for having made war upon his native country. Whoever mould dare to give him the rites of fepulchre, was to be interred alive. Antigone, the fifter of Polynice, thought it her duty on this oc- cafion, to liften rather to the di« less