The Chorus compares Antigone to Danae, a princess imprisoned because it was prophesized that one day her son would kill her father. Zeus visited the princess and a son resulted; he did eventually kill his grandfather. This somewhat parallels the story of her father, Oedipus, and the Chorus laments the powerlessness of man over destiny.
Then the Chorus recounts how King Lycurgus, Dryas' son, was imprisoned in stone for offending the goddesses who preside over literature, arts and science. The Chorus shares that once offended the gods and goddesses are without mercy.
Yet the Chorus, recalling a tale of jealousy, recounts another story. A king imprisoned his first wife and then let his new wife blind his two sons from his first marriage. The mother of the king's sons,.....
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