In this essay I will discuss the form and structure of Sophocles' Antigone, I will look at how Sophocles structured this play and comment on it, I will also compare it to a typical Greek structure. The typical structure of Greek tragedies included a Prologue and a Parados; there would then be four alternating Episodes and Stasimons. To conclude the work there would finally be a fifth episode and then an Exodus. The structure of Antigone was slightly different from this as Sophocles broke the trend and added an extra episode and Stasimon; this is significant as it was the first time this had happened in Greek theatre. Sophocles used a prologue in Antigone at the beginning of the play. The Prologue is normally between one or two protagonists and in Antigone there was Ismene and Antigone in the scene. This is helpful for the audience as it sets the scene and shows us some of the mythological background. It also places the work in its context which is wartime. The prologue is followed by a paradox which is the entrance of the choir. The Choir entered the Parados singing and dancing. They would then compare the story being told to a mythological background: "He fled, he fled with the roar of dragons behind him." After Parados is the first of six episodes, an episode is a scene between two or three protagonists and this is where the story takes place. . Sophocles is credited with introducing the third protagonist. Throughout the episodes we discover how the characters think and feel about their situation, with the choir and the other characters. Then there is the first Stasimon of the five Stasima. This is where the Chorus repeats key points from the previous episode and gives the audience a chance to reflect on what happened in the previous episode. The Stasima are used to introduce the characters in the next episode. A Sophoclean Chorus consisted of 15 men; they were never women because women weren't allowed. The choir sang and danced, creating a spectacle. The choir was also known as the perfect audience as they reacted the way the director intended the audience to react. The Chorus connects the story to a larger mythological framework, for example it connects the death of Antigone to the death of Danae. The Chorus also comments on the action during an episode called Kommoi “Do you mean, then, sire, to put them both to death?” The Chorus also represents a part of the collective community, in Antigone it could be the Theban