Daubigny's Garden is a series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. They show the garden of a painter that Van Gogh admired. The painting shown above is housed at Hiroshima Museum of Art in Japan.
Translation by F. Storr, BA ARGUMENT Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon's watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is
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