This line implies that humans, have been created in a sort of synthetic environment. Humans in this case, are now the most intellegent beings on the known universe, they have been monitored, similar to test subjects. These people/ this race, is more intelligent than man, and humans have been in an experiment this whole time.
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In Antigone the Chorus is made up of a group of Theban men. They represent the deeply embedded patriar society that Antigone defies.
In many ways, early modernism was a response to the logical thinking of realism.
