Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. Shall Thebes prescribe to me how I must rule?
Haemon
  1. See, there, how you have spoken so much like a child.
Creon
  1. Am I to rule this land by the will of another than myself?
Haemon
  1. That is no city, which belongs to one man.
Creon
  1. Does not the city by tradition belong to the man in power?
Haemon
  1. You would make a fine monarch in a desert.
Creon
  1. This boy seems to be fighting on the side of the woman.