Question about Antigone

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Reading the play Antigone and here is a small clip for Scene 2:

Creon. Yours certainly did, when you assumed guilt with the guilty!
Ismene. But how could I go on living without her?
Creon. You are. She is already dead.
Ismene. But your own son's bride!
Creon. There are places enough for him to push his plow. I want no wicked woman for my sons!

Push his plow? Is it the perverted comparison I think it is?

 

[Francodman]

Yup.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Francodman
Yup.

Thanks

 

[Orsorum]

Yes. Greek and Roman literature is some of the dirtiest there is.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

It's not perverted. The Greeks considered sex to be sewing of a seed. The man was given full credit for baby making, with the woman just being a vessel.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
It's not perverted. The Greeks considered sex to be sewing of a seed. The man was given full credit for baby making, with the woman just being a vessel.

With a really big needle

FYI that's "sowing" seed, also in "sow your wild oats," "reap what you sow" etc.

The literal definition (stolen from Google) "place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; 'She sowed sunflower seeds'"