Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. No, son of Oedipus, most dear of our men, do not be like in temperament to him who is called by such an evil name. It is enough that Cadmeans
  2. are advancing to close combat with Argives. That bloodshed can be expiated. But when men of the same blood kill each other as you desire, the pollution from this act never grows old.
Eteocles
  1. If indeed a man should suffer evil, let it be without dishonor, since that is the only benefit for the dead.
  2. But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.