Antigone by Sophocles
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: . That they may do and speak what things they will. Cre. All Thebes sees this with other eyes than thine. Ant. They see as I, but bate their breath to thee. 509 Cre. And art thou not ashamed, from them to differ? Ant. To reverence a brother is not shameful. Cre. And was not he who died for Thebes thy brother? Ant. One mother bore us, and one sire begat. Cre. Yet, honouring both, thou dost dishonour him. Ant. He in the grave will not subscribe to this. Cre. How, if no less thou dost revere the guilty? Ant. 'Twas not his slave that perished, but his brother. the. The enemy of this land: its champion he. Ant. Yet Death of due observance must not fail. Cre. Just and unjust urge not an equal claim. 520 Ant. Perchance in Hades 'tis a holy deed. Cre. Hatred, not ev'n in death, converts to love. Ant. Not in your hates, but in your loves, I'd share. Cre. Go to the shades, and, if thou'lt love, love there: No woman, while I live, shall master me. Enter Ismene. Chor. See, from the palace comes Ismene-- Sisterly drops from her eyes down-shedding: Clouded her brows droop, heavy with sorrow; And the blood-red tinge of a burning blush Covers her beautiful downcast face. 530 the. Thou, who hast crept, a serpent in my home, Draining my blood, unseen; and I knew not Rearing two pests, to overset my throne; Speak--wilt thou too confess that in this work Thou hadst a hand, or swear thou didst not know? Ism. I'll say the deed was mine, if she consents: My share of the blame I bear, and do not shrink. Ant. Justice forbids thy claim: neither didst thou Agree, nor I admit thee to my counsels. Ism. I am not ashamed, in thine extremity, 540 To make myself companion of thy fate. Ant. Whose was the deed, know Hades and the dead: I love not friends, who talk of friendliness. Ism. Sis.
Sophocles was born at Colonus, just outside Athens, in 496 BC, and lived ninety years. His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles, and though not an active politician he held several public offices, both military and civil. The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus, he was interested in poetic theory as well as practice, and he wrote a prose treatise On the Chorus. He seems to have been content to spend all his life at Athens, and is said to have refused several invitations to royal courts.Sophocles first won a prize for tragic drama in 468, defeating the veteran Aeschylus. He wrote over a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, and is said to have come first in twenty-four contests. Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these being Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, and the posthumous Oedipus at Colonus. A substantial part of The Searches, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third actor in his tragedies. He died in 406 BC. Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles's Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus's Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid. Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781580493888 |
| ISBN 10 | 1580493882 |
| Title | Antigone |
| Author | Sophocles |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ingram |
| Year published | 2005-12-30 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
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