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It is when Antigone realizes that she is dying because she obeys the gods and when Creon realizes that he is the source of the problems in Thebes that anagnorisis takes place in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the term anagnorisis describes the discovery of a truth. Theban Princess Antigone makes the realization that she is sentenced to death precisely because she does what she is supposed to: obey divine law and respect the gods. Shortly thereafter, her uncle Creon makes the realization that he is the cause of the pestilence and three suicides in Thebes.

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