ὦ γῆς Θήβης ἄστυ πατρῷον,
Antigone. Sophocles. Berlin. 1806.
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Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 922 focus
εἰ δ᾽ οἵδ᾽ ἁμαρτάνουσι, μὴ πλείω κακὰ
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 922 focus
ψαύων τὸν θεὸν ἐν κερτομίοις γλώσσαις.
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 922 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 922 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 922.mvp-line-913 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 922 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 922 focus
τοιγὰρ τούτων τοῖσιν ἄγουσιν
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 922 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 922.mvp-line-914 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 922 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 922 focus
τί χρή με τὴν δύστηνον ἐς θεοὺς ἔτι
Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 929 focus
Noch tost, wie zuvor, mit derselben Gewalt
Derselbige Sturm in der Jungfrau Brust.
910
Noch tost, wie zuvor, mit derselben Gewalt
Derselbige Sturm in der Jungfrau Brust.
910
Kreon.
Dafür wird auch den Geleitenden dort
Die Verzögerung bald mit Thränen belohnt!
Dafür wird auch den Geleitenden dort
Die Verzögerung bald mit Thränen belohnt!
Antigone.
Weh mir! Ganz nahe verheißt dies Wort
Mir des Todes Geschick.
Weh mir! Ganz nahe verheißt dies Wort
Mir des Todes Geschick.
Kreon.
Auch tröste dich nicht mit der Hoffnung mehr,
915
Daß nicht das Gebot gleich werde vollführt.
Auch tröste dich nicht mit der Hoffnung mehr,
915
Daß nicht das Gebot gleich werde vollführt.
Antigone.
thebische Burg, o heimisches Land,
Götter des Stamms!
1
Sie führen mich ohne Verzug fort!
Und ihr, o Götter von Thebä, seht
920
Von der Könige Stamm mich übrig allein;
Seht, was ich erduld' und erdulde von wem,
Da mir Heiliges heilig gegolten!
Kreon. Der Chor.
Erste Strophe.
thebische Burg, o heimisches Land,
Götter des Stamms!
1
Sie führen mich ohne Verzug fort!
Und ihr, o Götter von Thebä, seht
920
Von der Könige Stamm mich übrig allein;
Seht, was ich erduld' und erdulde von wem,
Da mir Heiliges heilig gegolten!
Der Chor.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 944-985 focus
Chorus
So too endured Danae in her beauty to change
the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
945
and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
950
So too endured Danae in her beauty to change
the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter,
945
and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.
950
Chorus
And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
955
That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
960
and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
965
And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.
955
That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire,
960
and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
965
Chorus
And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of
Bosporus
and the Thracian city Salmydessus,
where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
970
for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
975
And by the waters of the Dark Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of
Bosporus
and the Thracian city Salmydessus,
where Ares, neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance
970
for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands and with her shuttle for a dagger.
975
Chorus
Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering
and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
980
running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
985
Wasting away in their misery, they bewailed their miserable suffering
and their birth from their mother stripped of her marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas,
980
running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.
985
Commentary
Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus
496. mvp-comment-290-1 καλλύνειν Creon affects to regard Antigone's appeal to the higher law as a piece of hypocrisy. Cp. Fr. 845
496. mvp-comment-290-2 κλέπτων δ᾽ ὅταν τις ἐμφανῶς ἐφευρεθῇ, | σιγᾶν ἀνάγκη, κἂν καλὸν φέρῃ στόμα.