What sort of vocab did you have to learn?
Hmmm, it's been awhile (8 years) since I studied it, so I don't remember word for word what vocab words we did. (See how well learning all of it served me at sixteen years old?
) But from what I remember, it was a lot of Greek literary terms: deus ex machina, hubris/hamartia; etc. I wish I could be more specific, but like I said, relatively useless.
I just don't particularly like Antigone as a character. All the moaning about how she wants to die and be beloved in the afterlife for her heroic deeds strikes me as very self-absorbed. 
You shouldn't want to be a martyr, it should just be something that happens. 
And brazenly going to your death just because you're too caught up in the pain of your past (she does actually ask what the point of living is when Zeus has seemingly spared her no shame or pain) when you know you're going to cause a domino-effect of suicides is just selfish.
True. Greek tragedies are always melodramatic and over the top, though, so I tried not to get too hung up on all the "moaning."
Though I'm totally with you! I'd think that it would be sacrilege--especially in ancient Greece to risk the fury of the gods--to try and declare one's self a martyr.
Interesting stuff, though. I should go back and reread it all and appreciate them as an adult and
not a clueless teenager.
