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Sophocles, Antigone, 1092-1106
nan The man is gone, my king, leaving dire prophecies behind. And for all the time that I have had this hair on my head, now white, once dark, I know that he has never been a false prophet to our city.
nan The man is gone, my king, leaving dire prophecies behind. And for all the time that I have had this hair on my head, now white, once dark, I know that he has never been a false prophet to our city.
nan The man is gone, my king, leaving dire prophecies behind. And for all the time that I have had this hair on my head, now white, once dark, I know that he has never been a false prophet to our city.
nan I, too, know it well, and my mind is troubled. To yield is terrible, but, to resist, to strike my pride with ruin—this, too, inspires terror.
nan I, too, know it well, and my mind is troubled. To yield is terrible, but, to resist, to strike my pride with ruin—this, too, inspires terror.
nan I, too, know it well, and my mind is troubled. To yield is terrible, but, to resist, to strike my pride with ruin—this, too, inspires terror.
nan LEADER: Son of Menoeceus, it behoves thee to take wise counsel. CREON: What should I do then? Speak and I will obey. LEADER: Go thou, and free the maiden from her rocky chamber, and make a tomb for the unburied dead. CREON: And this is thy counsel? Thou wouldst have me yield? LEADER: Yea, King, and with all speed; for swift harms from the gods cut short the folly of men. CREON: Ah me, 'tis hard, but I resign my cherished resolve,-I obey. We must not wage a vain war with destiny. LEADER: Go, thou, and do these things; leave them not to others. CREON: Even as I am I'll go:-on, on, my servants, each and all of you,-take axes in your hands, and hasten to the ground that ye see yonder! Since our judgment hath taken this turn, I will be present to unloose her, as myself bound her. My heart misgives me, 'tis best to keep the established laws, even to life's end. (CREON and his servants hasten out on the spectators' left.) CHORUS (singing) O thou of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride, offspring of loud-thundering Zeus! thou who watchest over famed Italia, and reignest, where all guests are welcomed, in the sheltered plain of Eleusinian Deo! O Bacchus, dweller in Thebes, mother-city of Bacchants, by the softly-gliding stream of Ismenus, on the soil where the fierce dragon's teeth were sown! antistrophe 1 Thou hast been seen where torch-flames glare through smoke, above the crests of the twin peaks, where move the Corycian nymphs, thy votaries, hard by Castalia's stream. Thou comest from the ivy-mantled slopes of Nysa's hills, and from the shore green with many-clustered vines, while thy name is lifted up on strains of more than mortal power, as thou visitest the ways of Thebes: Thebes, of all cities, thou holdest first in honour, thou and thy mother whom the lightning smote; and now, when all our people is captive to a violent plague, come thou with healing feet over the Parnassian height, or over the moaning strait! antistrophe 2 O thou with whom the stars rejoice as they move, the stars whose breath is fire; O master of the voices of the night; son begotten of Zeus; appear, O king, with thine attendant Thyiads, who in night-long frenzy dance before thee, the giver of good gifts, Iacchus!
nan The moment, Creon, requires that you reason wisely.
nan What should I do, then? Speak, and I will obey.
nan Go and free the girl from her hollowed chamber. Then raise a tomb for the unburied dead.
nan Go and free the girl from her hollowed chamber. Then raise a tomb for the unburied dead.
nan And you recommend this? You think that I should yield?
nan Yes, my king, and with all possible speed. For harms sent from the gods swiftly cut short the follies of men.
nan Yes, my king, and with all possible speed. For harms sent from the gods swiftly cut short the follies of men.
nan Ah, it is a struggle, but I depart from my heart’s resolve and obey. We must not wage vain wars with necessity.
nan Ah, it is a struggle, but I depart from my heart’s resolve and obey. We must not wage vain wars with necessity.

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1. Sophocles, Antigone, 1001-1091, 1093-1156, 1167-1171, 1183-1190, 1192-1243, 1260-1353, 155, 159-160, 162-214, 216, 220, 249-278, 282-301, 304-312, 322, 327-329, 509, 61-64, 780, 872-875, 883, 944-966, 980-990, 997-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
2. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.268-1.292 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 1.268. μήτηρ δʼ ὡς τὰ πρῶτʼ ἐπεχεύατο πήχεε παιδί 1.269. ὧς ἔχετο κλαίουσʼ ἀδινώτερον, ἠύτε κούρη 1.270. οἰόθεν ἀσπασίως πολιὴν τροφὸν ἀμφιπεσοῦσα 1.271. μύρεται, ᾗ οὐκ εἰσὶν ἔτʼ ἄλλοι κηδεμονῆες 1.272. ἀλλʼ ὑπὸ μητρυιῇ βίοτον βαρὺν ἡγηλάζει· 1.273. καί ἑ νέον πολέεσσιν ὀνείδεσιν ἐστυφέλιξεν 1.274. τῇ δέ τʼ ὀδυρομένῃ δέδεται κέαρ ἔνδοθεν ἄτῃ 1.275. οὐδʼ ἔχει ἐκφλύξαι τόσσον γόον, ὅσσον ὀρεχθεῖ· 1.276. ὧς ἀδινὸν κλαίεσκεν ἑὸν παῖδʼ ἀγκὰς ἔχουσα 1.277. Ἀλκιμέδη, καὶ τοῖον ἔπος φάτο κηδοσύνῃσιν· 1.278. ‘αἴθʼ ὄφελον κεῖνʼ ἦμαρ, ὅτʼ ἐξειπόντος ἄκουσα 1.279. δειλὴ ἐγὼ Πελίαο κακὴν βασιλῆος ἐφετμήν 1.280. αὐτίκʼ ἀπὸ ψυχὴν μεθέμεν, κηδέων τε λαθέσθαι 1.281. ὄφρʼ αὐτός με τεῇσι φίλαις ταρχύσαο χερσίν 1.282. τέκνον ἐμόν· τὸ γὰρ οἶον ἔην ἔτι λοιπὸν ἐέλδωρ 1.283. ἐκ σέθεν, ἄλλα δὲ πάντα πάλαι θρεπτήρια πέσσω. 1.284. νῦν γε μὲν ἡ τὸ πάροιθεν Ἀχαιιάδεσσιν ἀγητὴ 1.285. δμωὶς ὅπως κενεοῖσι λελείψομαι ἐν μεγάροισιν 1.286. σεῖο πόθῳ μινύθουσα δυσάμμορος, ᾧ ἔπι πολλὴν 1.287. ἀγλαΐην καὶ κῦδος ἔχον πάρος, ᾧ ἔπι μούνῳ 1.288. μίτρην πρῶτον ἔλυσα καὶ ὕστατον. ἔξοχα γάρ μοι 1.289. Εἰλείθυια θεὰ πολέος ἐμέγηρε τόκοιο. 1.290. ᾤ μοι ἐμῆς ἄτης· τὸ μὲν οὐδʼ ὅσον, οὐδʼ ἐν ὀνείρῳ 1.291. ὠισάμην, εἰ Φρίξος ἐμοὶ κακὸν ἔσσετʼ ἀλύξας.’ 1.292. ὧς ἥγε στενάχουσα κινύρετο· ταὶ δὲ γυναῖκες
3. Statius, Thebais, 1.324-1.335, 10.699-10.711 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeson	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
ajax	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
alcimede	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
antigone	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74; Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 483, 489, 490; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111, 112
antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 483, 489, 490
apollonius rhodius	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
argos	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
belief/s, as traits of character	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
chrysothemis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
creon, feminized	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
creon, theb.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
creon	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111, 112
cries, of characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 756
electra	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
emotions, stoic views	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
episodes, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 483, 489, 490
eteocles, theb.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
eulogy, of human beings	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 489, 490
exodos, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 490
fear, associated with women/the feminine	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
fear, emasculating emotion	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
general parodos, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 483
haemon	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
hamartanō	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 756
heracles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
hero, sophoclean	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111, 112
ismene	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111, 112
jocasta	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
knox, b.m.w.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 112
menoeceus	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
paean, to human beings	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 489, 490
philoctetes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
polyneices	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
rome, and civil war	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
stasima, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 489, 490
structure, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 483, 489, 490
tecmessa	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
thebes, and civil war	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74
tiresias/teiresias'	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 112
tiresias/teiresias	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 111
tiresias	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 74