ABSTRACT
In a previous chapter, Alan Hornstein eloquently describes the rich source of material available for law students in the Western literary canon. Sophocles’ ancient play Antigone is replete with images of leadership and followership embodied in the characters of Creon, Antigone, Ismene, and Haemon. The play also explores the relationship between the state and its citizens and the relationship between men and women. The idea that it is out of the natural order of things for women to lead men and for women to lead the state is deeply embedded in Antigone and in our Western canon generally. Chaos will presumably reign if women are allowed to lead men and the natural order is upset.
