Antigone

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.

  1. What are you hazarding? What do you intend?
Antigone
  1. Will you join your hand to mine in order to lift his corpse?
Ismene
  1. You plan to bury him—when it is forbidden to the city?
Antigone
  1. Yes, he is my brother, and yours too, even if you wish it otherwise. I will never be convicted of betraying him.
Ismene
  1. Hard girl! Even when Creon has forbidden it?
Antigone
  1. No, he has no right to keep me from my own.
Ismene
  1. Ah, no! Think, sister, how our father