“The Antigone myth appeals today because of the fantasy that one young woman can take down a fascist state,” she said. In her new book, “Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths” (Bold Type Press, 2020), Helen Morales, the Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies at UC Santa Barbara, takes a fresh look at feminism and what the millennia-old stories tell us about what it means to be human today. Some 2,500 years later, Antigone has become a symbol of feminist resistance. One exception to this narrative was Antigone, the young woman whose defiance and death in Sophocles’ tragedy destroys the household of Creon, the king of Thebes. Tales from antiquity made heroes of the men who killed Amazons, warrior women considered the equal of men. In Greek mythology, misogyny was often a virtue.
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