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    Antigone
    Antigone
    Antigone
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    Antigone

    By Sophocles

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    Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man's—in this play that challenged many established mores of Ancient Greece.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateAug 24, 2015
    ISBN9781681464022
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    Sophocles

    Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than or contemporary with those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides.

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    Antigone - Sophocles

    Antigone

    by Sophocles

    Translated by Lewis Campbell, M.A., LL.D.

    EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

    HONORARY FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD

    Start Publishing LLC

    Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

    First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

    Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

    Manufactured in the United States of America

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    ISBN 13: 978-1-68146-402-2

    Table of Contents

    The Persons

    Scene

    Play

    THE PERSONS

    Scene. Before the Cadmean Palace at Thebes.

    Note. The town of Thebes is often personified as Thebè.

    Polynices, son and heir to the unfortunate Oedipus, having been supplanted by his younger brother Eteocles, brought an army of Argives against his native city, Thebes. The army was defeated, and the two brothers slew each other in single combat. On this Creon, the brother-in-law of Oedipus, succeeding to the chief power, forbade the burial of Polynices. But Antigone, sister of the dead, placing the dues of affection and piety before her obligation to the magistrate, disobeyed the edict at the sacrifice of her life. Creon carried out his will, but lost his son Haemon and his wife Eurydice, and received their curses on his head. His other son, Megareus, had previously been devoted as a victim to the good of the state.

    Antigone

    Antigone. Ismene.

    Antigone. Own sister of my blood, one life with me,

    Ismenè, have the tidings caught thine ear?

    Say, hath not Heaven decreed to execute

    On thee and me, while yet we are alive,

    All the evil Oedipus bequeathed? All horror,

    All pain, all outrage, falls on us! And now

    The General’s proclamation of to-day—

    Hast thou not heard?—Art thou so slow to hear

    When harm from foes threatens the souls we love?

    Ismene. No word of those we love, Antigone,

    Painful or glad, hath reached me, since we two

    Were utterly deprived of our two brothers,

    Cut off with mutual stroke, both in one day.

    And since the Argive host this now-past night

    Is vanished, I know nought beside to make me

    Nearer to happiness or more in woe.

    Ant. I knew it well, and therefore led thee forth

    The palace gate, that thou alone mightst hear.

    Ism. Speak on! Thy troubled look bodes some dark news.

    Ant. Why, hath not Creon, in the burial-rite,

    Of our two brethren honoured one, and wrought

    On one foul wrong? Eteocles, they tell,

    With lawful consecration he lays out,

    And after covers him in earth, adorned

    With amplest honours in the world below.

    But Polynices, miserably slain,

    They say ‘tis publicly proclaimed that none

    Must cover in a grave, nor mourn for him;

    But leave him tombless and unwept, a store

    Of sweet provision for the carrion fowl

    That eye him greedily. Such righteous law

    Good Creon hath pronounced for thy behoof—

    Ay, and for mine! I

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