HISTORY 114 Instructions for Essay Writing Assignment: A. Read the full Sophocles’ Antigone book in translation. You can have access to the full text together with useful commentary notes if you follow the link below: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/ant/antigstruct.htm B. Write an essay answering all of the questions below: 1. Describe how Sophocles portrays each of the following characters’ personalities, functions, and goals: Haimon, Ismene, Teiresias, the Chorus. 2. List and explain several of the main themes in Antigone. 3. Analyze the similarities and differences between Antigone and Creon. 4. Does Antigone represent all women of her time in her character and behavior? What do you know about the social position of women in classical Athens, during the mid-5th Century B.C.? Your arguments should be based on evidence from the text itself and from relevant books in the library. Suggested Readings (bibliography): Kitto, H. D. F. Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954. Melchinger, Siegfried. Sophocles. Translated by David A. Scrase. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1974. Oudemans, Th. C. W., and A. P. M. H. Lardinois. Tragic Ambiguity: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sophocles’ “Antigone.” New York: E. J. Brill, 1987. Segal, Charles Paul. “Sophocles’ Praise of Man and the Conflicts of the Antigone.” In Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Thomas Woodward. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: PrenticeHall, 1966. Instructions: Your paper should be 3-5 pages long, double spaced, excluding bibliography, references and images. You should use Times New Roman 12 font and number your pages. At the end of the paper you should have any Bibliography used. References and Notes, which you could put either at each page (footnotes) or at the end of your essay (endnotes), should be written in a consistent documentation style, according to the MLA/APA annotation system. Internet sources are acceptable, as long as they are fully and properly cited. In any case, any kind of plagiarism will result to an F grade for the paper. The Evaluation: The paper counts for the 25% of the final grade. You will obtain this grade if all questions of the essay are completed and URLs (web addresses), books, other sources are properly cited. Further evaluation will reflect: Organization Accuracy of Information/Content Originality (Although you need to access the Internet for information, copying and pasting complete texts is unacceptable. You must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the material you have read.)