Question

In the play Antigone by Sophocles, whose body is to be left out to be pecked and torn apart, without a proper military burial?

(A) Antigone
(B) Ismene
(C) Eteocles
(D) Polyneices

Answer 1

In the play Antigone, the body left out without a proper military burial is that of Polyneices.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the body that is left out without a proper military burial is that of Polyneices. According to the edict of Creon, Polyneices is deemed a miscreant exile and is not to be buried or mourned for. Instead, his corpse is to be left unburied, to be torn apart by dogs and carrion crows.