• Bishwa Nath Lamichhane

The quest of law and justice goes as far back as the dawn of human civilization. The quest of all knowledge, in the West, begins with the flowering of the Greek civilization where Homer comes with his Iliad and Odyssey, in the form of oral poetry. These works serve the first epics composed to sing the follies of war and human valor and efforts to establish a just and fair society. Although the early concept of justice seems to stem from revenge, honor, and greed for more power, later Greeks saw justice as human virtue. However, in Sophoclean tragedies, justice is sandwiched between the law of the land and the higher natural laws of Zeus. While Creon stands for the law of the land, Antigone represents the defender of the natural laws of justice. This paper attempts to explore how these competing ideas of law and justice resulted in the destruction of the Kingdom of Creon and the life of Antigone who stood for the laws of Zeus. The paper portrays the perennial conflict of these two concepts of law and justice as shown by Sophocles in Antigone.

Law of the land, natural law, Polis, nomos, divine law, chorus, divine justice, positive law

"The Concept of Law and Justice in Antigone", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.b256-b265, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208135.pdf

"The Concept of Law and Justice in Antigone", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppb256-b265, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208135.pdf