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How does Teiresias interpret what happens at the place of augury in the play 'Antigone'?

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That the altars are polluted from ritual birds eating the body parts of the unburied disloyal Theban dead is the way in which Teiresias interprets what happens at the place of augury in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the birds to be ritually sacrificed are consuming the blood and flesh of the unburied bodies of the disloyal Theban dead. The birds' bodies therefore bring human body parts and smells to the altars. The sacrifices to the gods cannot be read because of the polluted mix of bird and human body parts.

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