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Sophocles, Antigone, 710-729
nan No, even when a man is wise, it brings him no shame to learn many things, and not to be too rigid. You see how the trees that stand beside the torrential streams created by a winter storm yield to it and save their branches, while the stiff and rigid perish root and all?
nan No, even when a man is wise, it brings him no shame to learn many things, and not to be too rigid. You see how the trees that stand beside the torrential streams created by a winter storm yield to it and save their branches, while the stiff and rigid perish root and all?
nan No, even when a man is wise, it brings him no shame to learn many things, and not to be too rigid. You see how the trees that stand beside the torrential streams created by a winter storm yield to it and save their branches, while the stiff and rigid perish root and all?
nan No, even when a man is wise, it brings him no shame to learn many things, and not to be too rigid. You see how the trees that stand beside the torrential streams created by a winter storm yield to it and save their branches, while the stiff and rigid perish root and all?
nan No, even when a man is wise, it brings him no shame to learn many things, and not to be too rigid. You see how the trees that stand beside the torrential streams created by a winter storm yield to it and save their branches, while the stiff and rigid perish root and all?
nan And in the same way the pilot who keeps the sheet of his sail taut and never slackens it, upsets his boat, and voyages thereafter with his decking underwater. Father, give way and allow a change from your rage. For if even from me, a younger man, a worthy thought may be supplied
nan And in the same way the pilot who keeps the sheet of his sail taut and never slackens it, upsets his boat, and voyages thereafter with his decking underwater. Father, give way and allow a change from your rage. For if even from me, a younger man, a worthy thought may be supplied
nan And in the same way the pilot who keeps the sheet of his sail taut and never slackens it, upsets his boat, and voyages thereafter with his decking underwater. Father, give way and allow a change from your rage. For if even from me, a younger man, a worthy thought may be supplied
nan And in the same way the pilot who keeps the sheet of his sail taut and never slackens it, upsets his boat, and voyages thereafter with his decking underwater. Father, give way and allow a change from your rage. For if even from me, a younger man, a worthy thought may be supplied
nan And in the same way the pilot who keeps the sheet of his sail taut and never slackens it, upsets his boat, and voyages thereafter with his decking underwater. Father, give way and allow a change from your rage. For if even from me, a younger man, a worthy thought may be supplied
nan by far the best thing, I believe, would be for men to be all-wise by nature. Otherwise—since most often it does not turn out that way—it is good to learn in addition from those who advise you well.
nan by far the best thing, I believe, would be for men to be all-wise by nature. Otherwise—since most often it does not turn out that way—it is good to learn in addition from those who advise you well.
nan by far the best thing, I believe, would be for men to be all-wise by nature. Otherwise—since most often it does not turn out that way—it is good to learn in addition from those who advise you well.
nan by far the best thing, I believe, would be for men to be all-wise by nature. Otherwise—since most often it does not turn out that way—it is good to learn in addition from those who advise you well.
nan My king, it is right, if he speaks something appropriate, that you should learn from him
nan and that you, in turn, Haemon, should learn from your father. On both sides there have been wise words.
nan Men of my age—are we, then, to be schooled in wisdom by men of his?
nan Men of my age—are we, then, to be schooled in wisdom by men of his?
nan Not in anything that is not right. But if I am young, you should look to my conduct, not to my years.
nan Not in anything that is not right. But if I am young, you should look to my conduct, not to my years.

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Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
agōn scene	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
ajax,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
ajax (sophocles),and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
anger,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
antigone	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
antigone (sophocles),and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
asia,as origin of pelops	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
characters,tragic/mythical,antigone	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 278
characters,tragic/mythical,creon,king of thebes	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 278
characters,tragic/mythical,haemon	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 278
characters,tragic/mythical,ismene	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 278
characters,tragic/mythical,polyneices	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 278
creon,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
dialogue,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
episodes,of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
eulogy,of human beings	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
euripides,and political as opposed to rhetorical tragedy	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 278
fictive founder	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
fictive founders	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
foundation legends,peloponnesus'	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
foundation legends	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
haemon,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
heroization,and a pyre	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 738
law,in antigone	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
menelaus,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
oedipus,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
oedipus the king (sophocles),and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
paean,to human beings	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
peloponnesus,foundation legend	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
pelops,as founder	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
pindar	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 227
pyre,and heroization	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 738
scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
socrates	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
sophocles,and rhetoric/tragedy as a rhetorical form	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 278
stasima,of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
structure,of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486
teucer,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
tiresias,and agōn scenes	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
underworld,and antigone	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 486