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Who Is Antigone? The 2500-Year-Old Rebel With a Cause.

Helen Shaw

created: March 22, 2026, 5:41 p.m. | updated: March 22, 2026, 8:27 p.m.

“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?

3 hours, 13 minutes ago: NYT > World News