Antigone
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 3: The Antigone. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- and that you, in turn, Haemon, should learn from your father. On both sides there have been wise words.
- Men of my age—are we, then, to be schooled in wisdom by men of his?
- Not in anything that is not right. But if I am young, you should look to my conduct, not to my years.
- Is it worthy conduct to honor disrupters?
- I could not urge anyone to show respect for the wicked.
- And is she not in the grasp of that disease?
- All the people of this city of Thebes deny it.