Antigone and the Greek Polis

The story of Antigone tells a lot about the Greek polis and the way people lived within it. We can learn such things as the way women were treated by men and by the society. Political debates and the struggles for political power. The way in which religion affected the people, their society and their culture. Also the importance of and the role of tradition in the Greek polis societies. The women in the Greek …

…for themselves only to be challenged by others. Democracy had almost been pushed out of Greece and many fought for power. Revolution was not an uncommon thing in the states especially those being directly effected by the Peloponnesian war such as Athens. There was often times of anarchy where there was no apparent leader, these were the times that left Greece crippled forever and unable to ever attain the great power that they once were.