Of Men and Gods

One of our 5 fold conflicts is men vs. Gods.

In short Creon wanted to be a god, or at least have the power of one. That is the main evidence to me in Antigone. But this is going on around us all the time especially with men. Guys want power thereby giving them the feeling of being a god. "To indeed be a God!" is quoted in a shout during the movie Dead Poets Society. To create, secular humanism, Wallace Stevens. If we create we are God. I don't think we see this as a conflict between man and god until the man is destroyed in his pursuit of god-dom. So let us all create, and feel empowered because we just might be gods after all.

Antigones Page 113

On page 113 it starts off by making a reference to Aseschylus' Seven Against Thebes. It has to do with two brothers killing each other and then Creon takes the throne. This is where the story of Antigone starts.
Then we have reference to Oedipus and the riddel of the Sphinx. Oedipus received Thebes because of his answer the the Sphinx riddle. A man walks on 4 legs as an infant, 2 as an adult, and 3 (cane) when he is old. And somehow this is underneath the evolution of western kinship.
Next Steiner mentions how the story of the House of Laius are a foundation...I think. However the story is about Laius abducting a boy, married a girl, had a boy named Oedipus, and tried to keep his son from fulling what the oracle of Delphi told him. But Oedipus killed his father, married his mom and had Thebes.
Apparently Freud developed the Oedipus complex, boys attracted to their mother, from this story.
Steiner says that Sophocles is closer to our own concepts of literature than the 'origins' of the saga of Laius.
There is mention of an Oidipodeia. I don't know what that is and wikipedia is a little shakey on it too. It sounds like a reference to stories surrounding Oedipus.
And somehow we have the Saviour appearing in the here and now.


Ouch!