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Sophocles, Antigone, 570-579


nanBut not fitted to him as she was.


nanI abhor an evil wife for my son.


nanANTIGONE: Haemon, beloved! How thy father wrongs thee! CREON: Enough, enough of thee and of thy marriage! LEADER OF THE CHORUS: Wilt thou indeed rob thy son of this maiden? CREON: 'Tis Death that shall stay these bridals for me. LEADER: 'Tis determined, it seems, that she shall die. CREON: Determined, yes, for thee and for me.-(To the two attendants) No more delay-servants, take them within! Henceforth they must be women, and not range at large; for verily even the bold seek to fly, when they see Death now closing on their life. (Exeunt attendants, guarding ANTIGONE and ISMENE.-CREON remains.) CHORUS (singing) strophe 1 Blest are they whose days have not tasted of evil. For when a house hath once been shaken from heaven, there the curse fails nevermore, passing from life to life of the race; even as, when the surge is driven over the darkness of the deep by the fierce breath of Thracian sea-winds, it rolls up the black sand from the depths, and there is sullen roar from wind-vexed headlands that front the blows of the storm. (antistrophe 1) I see that from olden time the sorrows in the house of the Labdacidae are heaped upon the sorrows of the dead; and generation is not freed by generation, but some god strikes them down, and the race hath no deliverance. For now that hope of which the light had been spread above the last root of the house of Oidipus-that hope, in turn, is brought low — by the blood-stained dust due to the gods infernal, and by folly in speech, and frenzy at the heart. strophe 2 Thy power, O Zeus, what human trespass can limit? That power which neither Sleep, the all-ensnaring, nor the untiring months of the gods can master; but thou, a ruler to whom time brings not old age, dwellest in the dazzling splendour of Olympus. And through the future, near and far, as through the past, shall this law hold good: Nothing that is vast enters into the life of mortals without a curse. antistrophe 2 For that hope whose wanderings are so wide is to many men a comfort, but to many a false lure of giddy desires; and the disappointment comes on one who knoweth nought till he burn his foot against the hot fire. For with wisdom hath some one given forth the famous saying, that evil seems good, soon or late, to him whose mind the god draws to mischief; and but for the briefest space doth he fare free of woe. LEADER OF THE CHORUS: But lo, Haemon, the last of thy sons;-Comes he grieving for the doom of his promised bride, Antigone, and bitter for the baffled hope of his marriage? (Enter HAEMON)


nanHaemon, dearest! How your father wrongs you!


nanEnough! Enough of you and of your marriage!


nanWill you really cheat your son of this girl?


nanDeath it is who will end these bridals for me.


nanThen it seems that it is resolved that she will die.


nanResolved, yes, for you and by me. To the two Attendants. No more delay! Servants, take them inside! Hereafter they must be women, and not left at large.


nanResolved, yes, for you and by me. To the two Attendants. No more delay! Servants, take them inside! Hereafter they must be women, and not left at large.


nanResolved, yes, for you and by me. To the two Attendants. No more delay! Servants, take them inside! Hereafter they must be women, and not left at large.


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Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agōn scene Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
ajax (sophocles), actors in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
allan, w. and kelly, a. Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 78
antigone, heroism of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484, 486
antigone (sophocles), actors in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
antigone (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484, 486
asia, as origin of pelops Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
burial, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
characters, tragic/mythical, antigone Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 278
characters, tragic/mythical, creon, king of thebes Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 278
characters, tragic/mythical, haemon Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 278
characters, tragic/mythical, ismene Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 278
characters, tragic/mythical, polyneices Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 278
characters Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
communication, between actors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
creon, and antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
creon, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
dialogue, between characters Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
dramatic festivals, choruses Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 78
dramatic festivals, discursive parameters Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 78
episodes, of antigone (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484, 486
eteocles, and antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
eulogy, of human beings Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484, 486
euripides, and political as opposed to rhetorical tragedy Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 278
fiancé, vs. brother Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
fictive founder Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
fictive founders Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
foundation legends, peloponnesus' Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
foundation legends Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
general brother, vs. husband Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
haemon, and antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
heroism, of young women Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
husband, vs. brother Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
ismene, and antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
ismene, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
law, in antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 486
love, of antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
nature, of antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
neoptolemus, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
odysseus, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
oedipus rex as turannos, tiresias Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
paean, to human beings Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484, 486
peloponnesus, foundation legend Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
pelops, as founder Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
philoctetes, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
philoctetes (sophocles), actors in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
piety, of antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 735
pindar Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
polynices (oedipuss son), and antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
prophetic language Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sentences, ambiguous or elliptic Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
silence, and antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350
silence, use of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 208
sophoclean language, ambiguous, elliptic or vague Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, clarity Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, creates trust in something that is there Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, evokes situations Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean unlike gorgianic, unpredictable yet clear Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophocles, and rhetoric/tragedy as a rhetorical form Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 278
stasima, of antigone (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484, 486
structure, of antigone (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484, 486
tutor, and orestes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 735
underworld, and antigone Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 486
women, young Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 350