# Loeb Antigone prints a public argument that some unwritten things outrank a civic decree

Date: 1912

## The fact

Antigone’s speech in Loeb/Perseus English is a completed public heading of conscience against a burial-ban. Twin of the ban-harm and of 1948 overclaim: this stores the speech as a modest resilience-adjacent heading. Do not overclaim a human-rights statute.

## Context

A tragedy is not a constitution. Medium confidence on later civic uses.

[Sophocles](/people/sophocles) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, festival, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Perseus — Sophocles, Antigone (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0186; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Printed unwritten-law speech is not the UDHR.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Sophocles: https://factrail.ai/people/sophocles

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31/pg31-images.html
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0186

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/so-antigone-conscience-heading