Antigone
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- Are you not ashamed that your beliefs differ from theirs?
- No, there is nothing shameful in respecting your own flesh and blood.
- Was not he your brother too, who died in the opposite cause?
- A brother by the same mother and the same father.
- Why, then, do you pay a service that is disrespectful to him?
- The dead man will not support you in that.
- Yes, he will, if you honor him equally with the wicked one.