The classic Greek tragedy about a woman who valiantly defies a tyrant to honor her brother and please the gods.

When Polynices--a military leaders in Thebes's civil war--dies on the battlefield, Thebes's ruler, Creon, decrees that Polynices's body will lie unburied and left as prey for the vultures. But Antigone, the late warrior's sister, answers to a higher authority than the state, and breaks the law to follow her conscience and bury her brother with the proper rites.