Meaning of Creonian | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to the Creones.

not-comparable

Examples

“With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves.”

“They took possession of the Creonian dominions, in consequence of the laws and prescriptions of the country; as the Creones now assumed a new appellation from them, and were denominated, like them, Ar-gathel, iar-gael, or Ar-gyle.”

“Glengary, with part of his family, were returning in the steamer from a visit to some of their more Southron friends: they had passed through the Creonian Canal, and were within but a few miles of Fort William.”

“Antigone is an artist of logos while speaking for eros. This is not speech by paranoon, not speech by Creonian women. This is the speech of polis.”

“Insofar as it involves a Creonian site of authority, an ethics of a state, such as the Athenian democratic state, Lacan argued, indeed demands a beautiful, heroic, and dead Antigone.”

“In Sophoclean words, an Antigonian moment is manipulated to climb to power, and a Creonian moment is embraced to retain it, the revolutionary taking 'the heroic attitude of “Somebody has to do the dirty work, so let's do it!”'”

“We may call this the typical Creonian position. Creon exemplifies, in Sophocles' tragedy, the ruler (and victor in the civil war) who seeks to impose this exact view by prohibiting the burial of the leader of the losing side.”

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