For my research excursion, I chose to examine how Greek mythology impacted Ancient Greece, how it still impacts today's world, and why understanding more about the Greek gods provides greater insight into Antigone.

I've always been intrigued with Greek mythology and the history Ancient Greece. Reading Antigone helped me gain a better understanding of why Greek mythology is still prevalent in today's society.

For this project, I decided on three settings:

Following my research, I learned that the doctrines of Greek mythology were not only guiding principles, they were the dominant factor in how Athenians made decisions. When Antigone is challenging Creon over the burial of Polyneices, she references the rule of the gods, "Yes, because this was not a law decreed by Zeus, nor by Zeus' daughter, Justice, who rules with the gods of the underworld" (449). Antigone is claiming that the burial of Polyneices was right and just because it was in accordance with Zeus' law. She is claiming that Zeus' law has precedence over the law of man (Creon).

The Greek gods were influencing the anceint world of Antigone and continue to today. I hope you enjoy my exhibit.

 

Sources:

Mukherjee, Ankhi. “On Antigone’s Suffering.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 8, no. 2, Apr. 2021, pp. 214–231. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.scu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=202122679774&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Luepnitz, Deborah Anna. “Antigone and the Unsayable: A Psychoanalytic Reading.” American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences, vol. 77, no. 2, 2020, pp. 345–364. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.scu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=202019171749&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

History of Athens. (2020, January 1). In Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Athens

Ancient Olympic Games. (2021, September 30). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games