Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. Are you not ashamed that your beliefs differ from theirs?
Antigone
  1. No, there is nothing shameful in respecting your own flesh and blood.
Creon
  1. Was not he your brother too, who died in the opposite cause?
Antigone
  1. A brother by the same mother and the same father.
Creon
  1. Why, then, do you pay a service that is disrespectful to him?
Antigone
  1. The dead man will not support you in that.
Creon
  1. Yes, he will, if you honor him equally with the wicked one.