It is this that Sophocles caused Antigone to debate with Creone after she had violated his law by giving burial to her brother:

After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.

This book . . . ponders the role, including the complicitousness, of civic audiences in determining and sustaining the authority of political leadership.

[…] Our statecraft, our learning Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour.