El personaje de Antígona en Edipo en Colono de Sófocles

Abstract

Antigone personifies the voice of moderation that opposes to Creon and Polyneices. She represents the ethical principle of philia, which is defined in three different aspects. The first one, as the friendship or affinity bonds concerning to family ties. The second one is seen as the  relationship with citizens, to whom we are supposed to have share interests. This attitude is closed to philanthropy. The last aspect is perhaps the one that most accurately interprets the modern concept of “friend”. To conclude, the conciliatory character of Oedipus’s young daughter reminds about some performances of the honorable old age in the Homeric epics.