Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

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

  1. Yes, so all too equal was their destiny to them both. All alone, in truth, it consumes the ill-fated family. We have cause in this for joy and tears—
  2. the one because the city fares well, the other because the leaders, the two generals, have divided the whole of their property with hammered Scythian steel. They will possess only that land they take in burial, swept away as they were in accordance with their father’s curses.
  3. The city is saved, but through their mutual murder the earth has drunk the blood of the two kings born of the same seed.Exit.
Chorus
  1. O great Zeus and the divine powers that guard our city, you who indeed protect these walls of Cadmus,