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The Black prisoners of “The Island” turn to Sophocles’ “Antigone” to understand the injustice of their own situation.

Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

In the years that followed, Maclin immersed himself in “Jitney” by August Wilson and Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex.”

Fish told BBC News it was a "thrilling challenge to work on Sophocles' tragedy", adding that Carson's translation "explodes the question of what is ancient and what is contemporary".

In 441 B.C., the Athenian playwright Sophocles told a similar tale in “Antigone,” whose plot centers on an autocrat’s weaponization of a corpse killed in battle.