Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. O harbor of Hades, hard to purify!
  2. Why, why do you ruin me? Herald of evil, of grief, what word do you say? Ah, you have done in a dead man anew! What are you saying, boy? What is this you report to me
  3. God no!—what new slaughter, my wife’s doom, is heaped upon this ruin?
    Chorus
    1. The sight is at hand. It is no longer hidden inside.
    Creon
    1. Ah, misery!
    2. There I see a new, a second evil! What destiny, ah, what, can still await me? I have just now taken my son in my arms, and now I see another corpse before me!
    3. Oh, tormented mother! Oh, my son!