Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. but all must leave him unburied and a sight of shame, with his body there for birds and dogs to eat. This is my will, and never will I allow the traitor to stand in honor before the just. But whoever has good will to Thebes,
  2. he shall be honored by me in death as in life.
Chorus
  1. That is your will, Creon, towards this city’s enemy and its friend. And the power is yours, I believe, to make use of every law whatsoever, both concerning the dead and all us who live.
Creon
  1. See, then, that you be guardians of my commands.
Chorus
  1. Lay the weight of this task on some younger man.
Creon
  1. That is not what I meant—the guards for the corpse are already in place.
Chorus
  1. Then what is this other command that you would give?