antigone

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…on by many during that time, including Creon in Antigone, Pericles in his Funeral Oration and Socrates in The Last Days of Socrates: the Apology. Though very few would oppose it, Oedipus in Oedipus the King, Haemon in Antigone, Sappho in her poems, and obviously, Antigone seem to. They were a minority in a large group of people that did not acknowledge women with much respect or regard, let alone as an equal to men.