Heroism in Sophocles’s Antigone

'Heroism' in Warfare

The willingness of people to risk their lives fighting on behalf of their nation (which we call heroism) is a background assumption in the study of war, thus of international relations, but also an evolutionary puzzle. We use two computer simulations to explore the possibility that heroism could have evolved as a domain specific form of altruism, selected through humans’ ancient past as a conse...

Nursing heroism in the 21st Century'

BACKGROUND The Vivian Bullwinkel Oration honours the life and work of an extraordinary nurse. Given her story and that of her World War II colleagues, the topic of nursing heroism in the 21st century could not be more germane. DISCUSSION Is heroism a legitimate part of nursing, or are nurses simply 'just doing their job' even when facing extreme personal danger? In this paper I explore the pl...

Echoes of Sophocles's Antigone in Auster's Invisible

In her article "Echoes of Sophocles's Antigone in Auster's Invisible" Kathleen Waller discusses Paul Auster's Invisible, a novel that explores Deleuze's and Guattari's ontological idea of becoming in a virtual world versus merely living in the actual, physical world. Sexual and immortal desires in the protagonist's virtual world show a near achieved nothingness, or "a space which is unlimited" ...

Antigone: Policy-based Secure Group Communication System and AMirD: Antigone-based Secure File Mirroring System

This demonstration gives examples of how the Antigone policy-based secure group communication system supports applications. The concept behind Antigone came from the applications whose security needs may vary, depending on operating environment, principals in a group, or the data being exchanged. For example, some applications may handle proprietary data that requires confidentiality, others ma...

Heroism, Suffering, and Change