Long ago, during one of those late-night chin-wags beloved of self-conscious undergrads, a dorm-mate erupted into a tirade against Sophocles' Antigone, whom she deemed "a useless martyr." And while I felt compelled to defend Oedipus' eldest daughter (I was, after all, knee-deep into a term...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 03:48PM on March 11, 2015