Similarities between antigone and Martin Luther King, Jr.: "An unjust law is no law at all"

Classical Bulletin

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-66

  Sussman, Lewis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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