Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. If you were not my father, I would have called you insane.
Creon
  1. You woman’s slave, do not try to cajole me.
Haemon
  1. Do you want to have your say and then have done without a reply?
Creon
  1. Is that so? By Olympus above—know this well—you will have no joy for taunting me over and above your censures.
  2. Bring out that hated thing, so that with him looking on she may die right now in her bridegroom’s presence and at his side!
Haemon
  1. No, not at my side will she die—do not ever imagine it. Nor shall you ever look at me and set eyes on my face again.
  2. Indulge in your madness now with whomever of your friends can endure it.Exit Haemon.