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Teaching Politics Using Antigone
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2006
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Antigone, Sophocles' 5th century take on the Oedipus story, dramatizes war, fratricide, attempted patricide, suicide, the loss of young love, civil disobedience, and capital punishment. These elements make for great theatre but Antigone is also an immensely useful tool to engage undergraduate students from many disciplines in learning about politics. I use Antigone as a “motivating text” in political theory courses to engage students in the study of politics and persuade them of the importance of this field of study (Turner 2005).
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