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             Why not? Our own brothers' burial! Hasn't Creon graced one with all the rites,/ disgraced the other? Eteocles, they say, has been given full military honors, rightly so- Creon's laid him in the earth/ and he goes with glory down among the dead. But the body of Polynices, who died miserably/ - why, a city-wide proclamation, rumor has it,/ forbids anyone to bury him, even mourn him. He's to be unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure/ for birds that scan the field and feast to their heart's content. (1308)
             Antigone was able to justify her judgment that it was all right to bury her brother because he deserved to be mourned just like Eteocles. There was nothing that could have stopped Antigone from burying her brother. So she listened to her 'mental opinions&apo
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