Two brothers have killed each other in a civil war. Their uncle Creon, now king of Thebes, decrees that one brother — the rebel — must lie unburied outside the city walls, food for dogs and birds. Anyone who tries to bury him will be put to death. Their sister Antigone goes out at night with a handful of dirt anyway.
Sophocles's Antigone, first staged in Athens around 441 BCE, is the play philosophers keep going back to. It is the original argument between civil law and what some call divine law, conscience, or simple human duty to the dead. Creon and Antigone both believe they are right. The play does not say either of them is wrong. Then it kills almost all of them by the final scene.
Storica adapts the Greek tragedy into twenty-five chapters of B1 prose — preserving the play's structure of dialogue, choral commentary, and slow accumulation of doom. Each daily passage ends with a writing prompt that asks where you stand. There is no neutral place in this story.
Sophocles wrote Antigone as a stage play, not a poem. Adapted to B1, it stays close to that origin: short scenes, dialogue between two or three characters at a time, and the Chorus weighing in. This is the structure that makes B1 readers actually fluent — back-and-forth conversation, motive, conflict. You're not memorising vocabulary, you're following an argument.
Intermediate. You read narrative past tense fluently, handle dialogue, and understand short novellas. Vocabulary around 3,000 words. Subordinate clauses no longer slow you down.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Antigone was originally written in Ancient Greek, but you choose your reading language when you start.
B1. Intermediate. You read narrative past tense fluently, handle dialogue, and understand short novellas. Vocabulary around 3,000 words. Subordinate clauses no longer slow you down.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
Pick up where you left off. There are no streaks, no penalties, and no notifications begging you back. Day 12 is still Day 12 a week later.
Antigone is rated B1, so we'd suggest starting with one of our A0 or A1 books first if you're brand-new to your target language. Check our shelf at /library/ — the readers there are short, gentle, and built specifically for week one.
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