Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. Let it be harsh! This man will not be unburied.
Herald
  1. What! Will you honor with burial a man whom the city detests?
Antigone
  1. For a long time now the gods have ceased to hold him in honor.
Herald
  1. No, he was honored until he put this land in jeopardy.