Sophocles Antigone 283

πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.

Antigone. Sophocles. Cambridge, UK. 1906.

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Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906))

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Editions (11)
Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 283 focus
πότερον ὑπερτιμῶντες ὡς εὐεργέτην
Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 283 focus
καὶ γῆν ἐκείνων καὶ νόμους διασκεδῶν;
Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 283 focus
ἔκρυπτον αὐτὸν, ὅστις ἀμφικίονας
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 283.mvp-line-283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924)) — 283.mvp-line-283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 283 focus
πρόνοιαν ἴσχειν τοῦδε τοῦ νεκροῦ πέρι.
Translations (4)
German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 283 focus
CHOR.
1347
Glückselig zu seyn, thut Weisheit noth
vor Allem zuerst; und des Göttlichen Scheu
1280
soll keiner verschmähn: denn gewaltige Wort'
hochmüthiges Sinns, mit gewaltigem Schlag
schwer büfsend zuletzt,
sie lehren im Alter die Weisheit.
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.
Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 283 focus
EL CORO
Eso que has resuelto está bién, si es que puede haber algún bien en el mal. Las penas que se abrevian, se hacen más soportables.
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.