Would Antigone have appeared a sympathetic character to Greeks?Is the play more interested in the fate of Antigone or in that of Creon?
Does the play question patriarchal arrangements to any extent?
Antigone is produced when classical Athens is still working out the details of its democratic arrangements. Is Antigone interested in the relations of male and female, or does it use those relations in order to examine the relations between family and state?
On p. 102 Sarah Pomeroy claims that 'The Greeks assumed that men were bearers of culture'. Does this seem a valid claim? Are women conversely associated with nature?
Is the Women of Trachis more interested in the fate of Deianira or of Heracles?
What kind of a husband and father is Heracles?
What guilt does Deianira bear for Heracles' death? How is her sexuality implicated?