Antigone. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.
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Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 268 focus
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 268 focus
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 268 focus
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 268 focus
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 268.mvp-line-268 focus
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 268 focus
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 268 focus
Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 268 focus
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 268.mvp-line-268 focus
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 268 focus
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 268 focus
Translations (10)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 268 focus
KREON.
Gegenstr. 1.
O weh!
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O weh! nie versöhnlich Reich, Hades' Schlund,
Ha, du vernichtest mich! O des graunvollesten
Unheils Bote mir, welch Wort sprichst du aus?
Du giebst, ach! dem Todten noch Todesstofs!
O! was kündest du? welch neu Todesloos,
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ach ach, ach ach,
des Weibs sagst du mir, in Mord hingeschlachtet sie mein Gemahl!
Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 268 focus
CREONTE
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¡Ay de mí! No se impute nada de esto a otro hombre, porque ha sucedido por mi culpa. Pues yo, yo te maté, desdichado, yo; lo digo verdaderamente. ¡Oh siervos!, echadme a toda prisa; echadme fuera de aquí, que ya no soy nada.
Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 268 focus
Chorus
Bene mones, si quid in malis est boni.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 268 focus
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All my desire was gathered in my prayer.
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.
Kreon.
Schweig', eh mich deine Rede gar mit Zorn erfüllt,
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Daß du, der Alte, nicht zugleich als Thor erscheinst.
Denn unerträglich ist es, daß du sagen magst,
Die Götter trügen Sorge für den Todten dort.
Sie hätten, wie zu schöner That Verherrlichung,
Den Mann begraben, der mit Brand zu tilgen kam
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Die säulumringten Tempel und der Gaben Schmuck,
Und ihre Fluren, ihr Gesez zu stürzen sann?
Wann sahst du Frevler je geehrt durch Götterhuld?
Nie wahrlich, nie! Doch lange murrten schon darum,
Ungern gehorsam, wider mich die Bürger hier,
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Geheim die Häupter schüttelnd; ja, sie hielten nicht
Pflichttreu den Nacken unter'm Joch, wie's mir genügt.
Von ihnen wurden jene, sicher weiß ich das,
Durch Lohn verleitet und verübten diese That.
Denn wahrlich, nichts von Allem, was bei Menschen gilt,
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Ist, wie das Geld, verderblich: dies mag Städte selbst
Zerstören, dies treibt Männer aus von Hof und Herd;
Dies unterweiset und verkehrt den edlen Sinn
Rechtschaff'ner Männer, nachzugeh'n ruchloser That,
Zeigt an die Wege böser List den Sterblichen,
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Und bildet sie zu jedem gottverhaßten Werk.
Doch die für Lohn gedungen diese That vollbracht,
Erwirkten sich's nun endlich, daß sie Strafe trifft.
Ia, wenn noch irgend Ehre Zeus von mir empfängt,
So sei versichert, und mein Schwur betheur' es dir:
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Wofern ihr nicht den Frevler, der den Todten dort
Bestattet, aufspürt und mir hier vor Augen stellt,
Genügt es nicht an eurem Tode nur, ihr sollt
Am Kreuze hängen, bis ihr offenbart die Schmach,
Auf daß ihr, wissend, wo Gewinn zu suchen sei,
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Ihn künftig dort erhaschet und begreifen lernt,
Daß nicht in Allem nach Gewinn zu spähen frommt.
Denn mit dem Preis des Schlechten wirst du Mehrere
Unglücklich enden, als das Glück gewinnen seh'n.
Der Wächter.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 268 focus
Creon
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Quick let my last, my happiest hour appear !
Would it were come, the period of my woes !
Oh ! that I might not see another day !
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CiioR. Time must determine that : the present hour
Demands our rare ; the rest 1:>e left to heaven.
Oreon. But I have wished and prayed for 't.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 268 focus
CREONTE
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¡Oh fatal error, cruel irreparable error de mis sentidos perturbados!... ¡Ah! vosotros los
que contemplais á los miembros de una misma familia, los unos dando la muerte, cadáveres los otros... ¡Enfaustos consejos miosl... ¡hijo de mi corazón! has muerto en la flor de tu juventud... y yo, tu padre... ¡ay! ¡ay!... yo mismo he sido quien con su temeridad te ha asesinado.
German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 268 focus
KREON
Was ich gesaget, eben, das hab’ ich gewünschet.
English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 268 focus
Creon
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Oh, let it come, let it appear, that fairest of anv. 3.
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fates for me, that brings my last day,—aye, best fate of all! Oh, let it come, that I may never look upon to-morrow’s light.
English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 332-380 focus
Chorus
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man.
This power spans the sea, even when it surges white before the gales of the south-wind, and makes a path under swells that threaten to engulf him. Earth, too, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the unwearied,
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he wears away to his own ends, turning the soil with the offspring of horses as the plows weave to and fro year after year.
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Chorus
The light-hearted tribe of birds
and the clans of wild beasts and the sea-brood of the deep he snares in the meshes of his twisted nets, and he leads them captive, very-skilled man. He masters by his arts
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the beast who dwells in the wilds and roams the hills. He tames the shaggy-maned horse, putting the yoke upon its neck, and tames the tireless mountain bull.
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Chorus
Speech and thought fast as the wind and the moods that give order to a city he has taught himself, and how to flee the arrows of the inhospitable frost under clear skies and the arrows of the storming rain.
He has resource for everything. Lacking resource in nothing he strides towards what must come. From Death alone he shall procure no escape, but from baffling diseases he has devised flights.
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Chorus
Possessing resourceful skill, a subtlety beyond expectation he moves now to evil, now to good. When he honors the laws of the land and the justice of the gods to which he is bound by oath,
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his city prospers. But banned from his city is he who, thanks to his rashness, couples with disgrace. Never may he share my home,
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never think my thoughts, who does these things!
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Chorus
What marvel sent by the gods is this?—I am bewildered! I know her. How can I deny that this girl is Antigone? O unhappy child
of your unhappy father, of Oedipus! What can this mean? What! Surely they are not bringing you captive for disobeying the King’s laws and being caught in lunacy?
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Commentary
Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))
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
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