Antagonie's Refusal Is a Question of the Greek Dramatography

Antagonie's refusal represents as deep a questioning of the logic of sacrifice as one can find in Greek tragedy, Schirard says. The playwrights are dependent on the favor of their audience and therefore bound to bring the miss they narrate to their predetermined ends,. Sophocles' Oedipus the king is an example: He faces the stereotypical accusation that he has killed his father and married his mother.