Klaus Hart Brasilientexte

Lilian Gonzaga da Costa, 43, who works as a cleaner, had probably never been to the theatre to watch a play by Sophocles nor did she know who Antigone was. In spite of the two women being separated by 26 centuries what they have in common is loving devotion to their families, a sense of justice and wanting the right of the living to mourn their dead.  
 
Antigone decided to ignore the orders of the powerful Creon, king of Thebes, and buried her brother Polynices whose corpse the king had demanded should remain unburied, exposed to carrion birds and dogs, so that the horror of it would inhibit other pretenders to the throne.

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