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Polynices

[ pol-uh-nahy-seez ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.


Polynices

/ ˌpɒlɪˈnaɪsiːz /

noun

  1. Greek myth a son of Oedipus and Jocasta, for whom the Seven Against Thebes sought to regain Thebes. He and his brother Eteocles killed each other in single combat before its walls
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Instead, in addition to other roles, the charismatic Araujo plays a gender-fluid Antigone, the Greek heroine who opposes her uncle Creon, the ruler of Thebes, when he decrees that her brother Polynices won’t be buried or mourned after his death on the battlefield.

In the story, Antigone is determined to properly bury her brother — Polynices, the son of the former, disgraced king Oedipus — even though his burial has been forbidden by a decree from the new king, Creon.

Sophocles’s tragedy “Antigone,” written in the fourth century B.C., unfolds around the heroine’s outrage over the refusal on pain of death by the Theban king, Creon, to allow a proper burial for Antigone’s rebellious brother, Polynices.

“You are the modern Antigone of our times,” a popular talk show host, Fabio Fazio, told Ms. Cucchi in a recent interview, referring to the figure in Greek mythology who seeks a proper burial for her brother, Polynices.

Mr. Doerries created the work after noting the similarities between the fates of Mr. Brown and Polynices, a character in “Antigone” whose body lays lifeless in the street and ignites a conflict between the community and the state.

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