Question
This character is compared to Danaë and to Lycurgus of Thrace by the chorus after exiting the stage to be executed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who criticizes the chorus for positively comparing her to Niobe for her method of execution. The man who orders this character’s execution is warned of birds killing each other by a seer.
ANSWER: Antigone
[10e] The chorus in this other play is more supportive of Antigone’s wish to bury Polynices. This Aeschylus play concerns the events preceding Antigone, in which the brothers Polynices and Eteocles kill each other.
ANSWER: Seven Against Thebes
[10h] In Seven Against Thebes, Eteoclus, not to be confused with Eteocles, fights this son of Creon. In Antigone, Creon’s wife Eurydice raises a cry for this son of hers first, and then for Haemon, before killing herself.
ANSWER: Megareus
<Jay Kim, European Literature>
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