"Invincible Eros" : democracy and the vicissitudes of participation in Antigone

Dimitris Vardoulakis D.

doi:10.1525/lal.2012.24.2.213

"Invincible Eros" : democracy and the vicissitudes of participation in Antigone

Dimitris Vardoulakis D.

School of Humanities & Communication Arts

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Abstract

Sophocles' Antigone presents both Creon and Antigone as both democratic and antidemocratic. The articles examines this paradoxical relation between the protagonists by looking at how the stasimon on eros figures sovereignty.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	213-231
Number of pages	19
Journal	Law and Literature
Volume	24
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/lal.2012.24.2.213
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Eros
agonism
democracy
sovereignty

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"Invincible Eros" : democracy and the vicissitudes of participation in Antigone

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