Summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere.
School's out until August or September (depending on how your school district does it)
School for me started in late August, close to my birthday.
In fact, when I started 4th grade, the first day of school was actually ON my birthday!
In my first year in high school, one of my assignments in English class was the Greek play Antigone by the playwright Sophocles.
It tells the story of the daughter of Oedipus (y'know, the guy who killed his dad and married his mum), who defies her uncle's orders not to bury her brother (who had been killed in a duel with her other brother), and is punished by being buried alive.
This was before I first became interested in mythology, so it was pretty difficult for me to understand at the time.
However, if I had taken this assignment today, I probably would have gotten an A+ on it!
This cartoon representation of the story is a throwback to my high school English assignment.
It depicts both the Antigone story and the Oedipus story that precedes it chronologically.
I chose to represent them together because Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus.
I also threw in some Easter egg references to other Greek myths.
Next to poor innocent Antigone are the remains of monsters that were slain by other Greek heroes (the Chimera, the Minotaur, and a Hellenic dragon), as well as a dwarf elephant fossil as a nod to the scientific origins of the Cyclops.
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