When Ismene says to Antigone, in Sophocles' Antigone, "Remember we are women. We're not born to contend with men", she is reflecting the "mainstream" view of women in early Greece, one that was shared by many and opposed by few. Women were treated as possessions,...

In Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Antigone, two characters undergo character changes. During the play the audience sees these two characters’ attitudes change from close minded to open-minded. It is their close minded, stubborn attitudes, which lead to their decline in the play, and ultimate...

In the characters of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Antigone >and Medea, the ancient Greek playwrights Aeschylus, >Sophocles, and Euripides offer four distinctly different >views of the roles which women played in Greek society. >While women definitely played a role which was subservient >to the one played...