Antigone

Sophocles

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

  1. you, at least, will bear me witness how unwept by loved ones, and by what laws I go to the rock-closed prison of my unheard-of tomb! Ah, misery!
  2. I have no home among men or with the shades, no home with the living or with the dead.
Chorus
  1. You have rushed headlong to the far limits of daring, and against the high throne of Justice
  2. you have fallen, my daughter, fallen heavily. But in this ordeal you are paying for some paternal crime.
Antigone
  1. You have touched on my most bitter thought
  2. and moved my ever-renewed pity for my father and for the entire doom ordained for us, the famed house of Labdacus. Oh, the horrors of our mother’s bed! Oh, the slumbers of the wretched mother at the side
  3. of her own son, my own father! What manner of parents gave me my miserable being! It is to them that I go like this, accursed and unwed, to share their home.