Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. At least your choice was not made without my protests.
Antigone
  1. One world approved your wisdom, another approved mine.
Ismene
  1. Nevertheless, the offense is identical for both of us.
Antigone
  1. Take heart! You live. But my life has long been
  2. in Death’s hands so that I might serve the dead.
Creon
  1. One of these maidens, I declare, has just revealed her foolishness; the other has displayed it from the moment of her birth.
Ismene
  1. Yes, Creon. Whatever amount of reason nature may have given them does not remain with those in dire straits, but goes astray.