Pólis y "leyes no escritas". Claves Iusfilosóficas de la tragedia Antígona de Sófocles

Resumo

This Doctoral Memory is concerned with the ex opera ipsa reading of one of the most outstanding creations of world literature, which dramatizes the events after the failed assault of the seven against Thebes that Aeschylus had dramatized and that, from another angle, Euripides will also treat. The tragedy of Sophocles, the first of the three, with Oedipus the King and Oedipus in Colonus, which he dedicated to the myth of the fatal fate of Labdathae, is the one that describes the final misfortunes of the children of Oedipus and is centered on the conflict over the prohibition, dictated by Creon, the new king of the city and uncle of the Oedipid brothers, of the burial of the traitor and fratricide Polinices in parity of honor with his brother King Eteocles defender of Thebes, whom Antigone disobeys invoking the unshakable laws of the gods against the prohibitive decree. The work has attracted countless studies, commentaries and exegesis, while inspiring a growing number of readaptations and recreations, in which, based on Aristotle's iusnaturalist dignification of the heroine, her character of “Feminine nobility” has generally been idealized to counterpose it to the unsympathetic despotism of her dramatic antagonist...