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...the current era, as Western thought, philosophy, social system and religion find their deepest roots in the ancient history of the Mediterranean world. Examination of the writings of a variety of ancient scholars offers insight into how these ancient Greeks and Romans viewed the world and how their political and societal systems functioned.
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In Sophocles’s play Antigone, ancient Greek concepts of religious duty and the role of women, in regards to this duty, collide with perceived political need on the part of Creon, the King of Thebes after the death of Antigone’s brothers, to maintain social order. Antigone’s brothers agreed between them that one would rule for a year and then step down and allow the other to rule for a year; however, when the time came for Eteocles to step down, he refused. Polyneices then attacked the city and both brothers were killed. While Creon honors Eteocles with a hero’s burial, he decrees that Polyneices’s body should be left to carrion-eaters and should not receive any burial...