Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. Yours did, I know, when you chose dire actions with dire allies.
Ismene
  1. What life would there be for me alone, without her presence?
Creon
  1. Do not speak of her presence. She lives no longer.
Ismene
  1. What? You will kill your own son’s bride?
Creon
  1. Why not? There are other fields for him to plough.
Ismene
  1. But not fitted to him as she was.
Creon
  1. I abhor an evil wife for my son.