Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. What more do you want than to capture and kill me?
Creon
  1. I want nothing else. Having that, I have everything.
Antigone
  1. Why then do you wait? In none of your maxims
  2. is there anything that pleases me—and may there never be! Similarly to you as well my views must be displeasing. And yet, how could I have won a nobler glory than by giving burial to my own brother? All here would admit that they approve,
  3. if fear did not grip their tongues. But tyranny, blest with so much else, has the power to do and say whatever it pleases.
Creon
  1. You alone out of all these Thebans see it that way.
Antigone
  1. They do, too, but for you they hold their tongues.