Antigone’s Underlying Aristotelian Flair

Antigone, Sophocles’s notable tragic installment, does not fall far from Aristotle’s Poetics.

The Greek philosophers were the first to say what we’ve known to be true to ourselves in both literary, physical and visual art: art is representation. They believed that our enduring fascination with such art exists because we are, in turn, fascinated with who we are. As Aristotle argues in Poetics, his critical work concerning the qualities of poetry and ultimately that of tragic works, “representation… comes…