Sophocles Antigone 258

ed. Lewis Campbell

Current edition Experimental

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 258 focus
λόγοι δ᾽ ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν ἐῤῥόθουν κακοὶ,
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 258 focus
εἷς γάρ τις ἦν ἕκαστος οὑξειργασμένος,
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 258 focus
φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα· κἂν ἐγίγνετο
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος, ἐξεφαίνετο.
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 258.mvp-line-258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος, ἐξεφαίνετο.
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 258.mvp-line-258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 258 focus
ἐλθόντος, οὐ σπάσαντος ἐξεφαίνετο.
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 258 focus
BOTE.
Ich schaudre selbst auch; doch die Hoffnung nährt mich noch,
des Kindes Unglück hörend wolle nicht der Stadt
1190
sie zeigen ihre Klagen, sondern drin im Haus
mit ihren Frau'n beweinen dieses eigne Leid.
Nicht unverständig ist sie, daſs sie frevelte.
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 258 focus
CREONTE
1281 ¿Qué hay, pues, peor que el mismo mal?
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 258 focus
Verna
Occidit uxor tua, vera mater huius mortui infelix, inflicto recens vulmere.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 258 focus
CR
1294
Alas!
Again I see a new, a second woe.
1295
What more calamitous stroke of Destiny
Awaits me still? But now mine arms enfold
My child, and lo! yon corse before my face!
Ah! hapless, hapless mother, hapless son!
1300
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 278 focus
Schon lang, o König, überlegt mein Inneres,
Ob eine Gottheit diese That nicht angeregt.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 258 focus
Creon
1284
O death insatiate ! how dost thou afflict me !
What cruel news, thou messenger of ill,
Hast thou brought now ?
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 258 focus
EL CORO
¡Oh, Tiresias, cuán verdaderas eran tus predicciones!
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 258 focus
KREON
Sie schlägt die schwarzen Augen auf. Was klagt sie?
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 258 focus
Creon
1284 Oh Hades, all-receiving, whom no sacrifice can appease! Hast thou, then, no mercy for me? O thou herald of evil, bitter tidings, what word dost thou utter? Alas, I was already as dead, and thou hast smitten me anew! What sayest thou, my son? What is this new 1290 message that thou bringest—woe, woe is me !—of a wife’s doom, —of slaughter heaped on slaughter?
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

223-330. mvp-comment-136-1 The half-comic or rustic character of the watchman in this play is an extension of the common character of the messenger, whose natural rudeness of speech and thought brings into greater prominence the horror or pathos of the events he describes. The grotesqueness disappears when he speaks of the action of Antigone in 407-440. The employment of this artifice by Sophocles arises from the same motive to which Shakespeare gave a far wider range in such creations as the gravediggers in Hamlet, and the rural fellow in Antony and Cleopatra. The Messenger in the Trachiniae, the Corinthian in the Oedipus Tyrannus, Menelaus in the Ajax, the pretended Shipmaster in the Philoctetes, afford the same sort of contrast to the more tragic personages: and the superstition of the Coloniatae may be compared with the cowardice of the Phrygian slave in the Orestes of Euripides.

223-330. mvp-comment-136-2 The vulgarity of the common-place Athenian of the fifth century в.с. takes the form of misplaced subtlety of wit. Cp. Shak. Hamlet, 5. 1 ,

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

258. mvp-comment-160-1 οὐ σπάσαντος Cp. Aesch. Prom. 451, οὔτε.. δόμους.. οὐ ξυλουργίαν.