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ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις
945

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τί-

μιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

Antigone. Sophocles. Oxford. 1924.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by Tufts University.

Current edition Experimental

Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (A. C. Pearson, 1924))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (11)

Greek (L. Benloew, 1858) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (L. Benloew, 1858)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ ¹ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις ²
940

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε

γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
945

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ³ ἄν νιν ὄμβρος, οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

a

Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη.
910

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ' Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι
915

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
930

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει

θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καὶ τοι γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.

ἀλλ’ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινὰ
935

οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

ἀντ. α΄.

Greek (A. Colonna, 1978) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Colonna, 1978)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ' ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (A. Dain, 1955) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (A. Dain, 1955)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δ’ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ’ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ’ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ’ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. D. Dawe, 1979)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις
945

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμωι κατεζεύχθη.

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾶι τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (G. Hermann, 1830) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (G. Hermann, 1830)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς
935

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη.

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ, παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
940

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος, οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

1

Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (R. C. Jebb, 1906)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς 1

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς· 2
945

κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη· 3

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ, 4

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους. 5
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά· 6

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι 7

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν. 8

1

Antigone (OCR draft) Experimental (Antigone) — 944 focus

Χορός

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς·
945

κρυπτομένα δʼ ἐν τυμβήρει θαλάμῳ κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾷ τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλʼ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτʼ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτʼ Ἄρης, οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (K. Reinhardt, 1949)) — 944 focus

ἔτλα καὶ Δανάας οὐράνιον φῶς

ἀλλάξαι δέμας ἐν χαλκοδέτοις
945

αὐλαῖς· κρυπτομένα δ᾽ ἐν

τυμβήρει θαλάμωι κατεζεύχθη·

καίτοι καὶ γενεᾶι τίμιος, ὦ παῖ παῖ,

καὶ Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονὰς χρυσορύτους.
950

ἀλλ᾽ ἁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις δεινά·

οὔτ᾽ ἄν νιν ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ Ἄρης,

οὐ πύργος, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι

κελαιναὶ νᾶες ἐκφύγοιεν.

Translations (11)

German (A. Boeckh, 1884) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (A. Boeckh, 1884)) — 944 focus

CHOR.

Auch der Danaë Leib mufste des Himmels

Licht, die hehre Gestalt, missen im erzdichten

Str. 1.

Haus, und es barg sie fesselnd düsterer Gruft Kerker.
910

Und doch war von Geschlecht edel sie, o Kind, Kind,

und wahrt' hegend des Zeus strömender Saat goldenen Schatz.

Ja stets waltet die Allmacht des Geschicks furchtbar;

Reichthümer nicht, noch Heeresmacht,

nicht feste Burg entrinnen ihr,
915

noch flutumpeitscht die dunklen Schiffe.

Gegenstr. 1.

Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (J. A. Bolufer, 1921)) — 944 focus

También sufrió Dánae cambiar la celestial luz por las tinieblas en mansión ceñida de bronce, y escondida en funerario tálamo está aprisionada. Y en verdad que por su nacimiento era ilustre, ¡oh niña, niña!, y guardaba en su seno los gérmenes de la lluvia de oro de Júpiter. Pero la fatalidad tiene una fuerza terrible ni las riquezas, ni Marte, ni las torres, ni las negras naves que sufren el embate de las olas la pueden evitar.

Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806) (OCR draft) Experimental (Latin (F. H. Bothe, 1806)) — 944 focus

Sustinuit etiam Daneë coelesti lumine privari in aereo.

conclavi, abditaque sepulcralis thalami iugum tulit; atqui o nata, nata, genere erat nobilis, gremioque recondita servabat auriílua Iovis semina. At ingens est fati vis; quam nec fortis vel Mars, vel turris, neque undisonae nigrae naves effugiant.

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 944 focus

Even Danaë’s beauty left the lightsome day.

Closed in her strong and brass-bound tower she lay

In tomb-like deep confine.
945

Yet she was gendered, O my child!

From sires of noblest line,

And treasured for the Highest the golden rain.
950

Fated misfortune hath a power so fell:

Not wealth, nor warfare wild,

Nor dark spray-dashing coursers of the main

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 944 focus

Auch der Danaë Reiz mußte des Himmels

(sie wird abgeführt.)

Lichtstrahl einst mit der Nacht tauschen im erzdichten
925

Haus und verborgen

Im grabähnlichen Ruhgemach wohnen.

Und doch war sie, o Kind, Kind, von Geburt edel,

Und trug hegend im Schooß goldener Saat Ströme von Zeus.

Ja, wohl ist des Geschicks Obergewalt furchtbar;
930

Nie kann der Reichthum, Ares nie,¹

Nicht Vesten ihr, kein dunkles Schiff

Entflieh'n, das rings umbraust die Woge.

Erste Gegenstrophe.

English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 944 focus

Chorus.

Remember what fair Danae endured,

Condemned to change he^iven's cheerful light
945

For scenes of horror and of night,

Within a brazen tower long time immured ;

Yet was the maid of noblest race,
950

And honoured e'en with Jove's embrace ;

But, oh ! when fate decrees a mortal's woe

Naught can reverse the doom or stop the blow —

Nor heaven above, nor earth and seas below.

Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889) (OCR draft) Experimental (Spanish (A. G. Garbin, 1889)) — 944 focus

Del propio modo se vió privada Danae de la claridad de la luz, en su prisión de bronce, oculta á todos los ojos y cautiva en su sepul. cro,—á pesar de ser ilustre su origen, hija mía, y de haber fecundado su seno Júpiter transformado en lluvia de oro. Pero el poder del Destino es incontrastable¹: sin que puedan librarse de él ni la riqueza, ni el ficro Marte, ni los fuertes castillos, ni las nayes cn cuyos negros costados se estrellan las olas.

Antistrofa 1.a

CORO

German (F. Hölderlin, 1804) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (F. Hölderlin, 1804)) — 944 focus

CHOR

Der Leib auch Danaes mufste,

Statt himmlischen Lichts , in Gedult

Das eiserne Gitter haben.

Iın Dunkel lag sie

In der Todtenkammer, in Fesseln ;
985

Obgleich an Geschlechtadel, o Kind!

Sie zählete dem Vater der Zeit

Die Stundenschläge, die goldnen.

Aber des Schiksaals ist furchtbar die Kraft.

Der Reegen nicht, der Schlachtgeist
990

Und der Thurm nicht, und die meerumrauschten

Fliehn sie, die schwarzen Schiffe.

English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb1, 1904)) — 944 focus

And bonds tamed the son of Dryas, swift to wrath, that king of the Edonians ; so paid he for his frenzied taunts, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was pent in a rocky prison. There the fierce exuberance of his 960 madness slowly passed away. That man learned to know the god, whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries; for he had sought to quell the godpossessed women, and the Bacchanalian fire; and he angered the Muses that love the flute. 2

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 944 focus

The same impetuous spirit rules her yet.

English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb2, 1904)) — 944 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

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-561-1 Acrisius, the father of Danaë, was king of Argos. The oracle at Delphi told him that he was to be slain by his daughter's son. He therefore immured the maiden in a chamber built for that purpose within the precincts of his house at Argos. Here Zeus visited her in the golden rain; she bore Perseus; and Acrisius sent mother and child adrift on the Aegean in a chest; but Zeus heard her prayer, and brought them safely to the island of Seriphus. Both Soph. and Eur. wrote a

Δανάη

: Soph. wrote also an

Ἀκρίσιος

mvp-comment-561-2 καὶ Δανάας δέμας ἔτλα ἀλλάξαι οὐράνιον φῶς ¹ ἔτλα καί ²

mvp-comment-561-3 δέμας ³

mvp-comment-561-4 χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς ⁴

mvp-comment-562-1 τυμβήρει ⁵

mvp-comment-562-2 κατεζεύχθη ⁶

mvp-comment-563-1 τίμιος ⁷

mvp-comment-564-1 ταμιεύεσκε ⁸

mvp-comment-564-2 χρυσορύτους ⁹

mvp-comment-565-1 ἁ μοιριδία τις ¹⁰ τις ¹¹

mvp-comment-566-1 οὔτ’ … ὄλβος ¹²

mvp-comment-566-2

θνατοῖσι δ’ οὐκ αὐθαίρετοι | οὔτ’ ὄλβος οὔτ’ ἄκαμπτος Ἄρης οὔτε παμφθέρσης στάσις, | ἀλλ’ ἐπιχρίμπτει νέφος ἄλλοτ’ ἐπ’ ἄλλαν | γαῖαν ἁ πάνδωρος αἶσα.

mvp-comment-566-3 πύργος ¹³

mvp-comment-566-4 οὔτ’ … οὔτ’ ¹⁴ οὐ … οὐχ ¹⁵

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

944-987. mvp-comment-537-1 The chorus, in the manner of Pindar, moralise on the fate of Antigone through examples drawn from the circle of mythology and legend; and thus suggest the same cold comfort as in their mention of Niobe. The effect of this ode is to repress the excitement and solemnize the thoughts of the spectator. 'Danaë, though of royal lineage, and entrusted with the golden shower, was bound by all-constraining destiny in her brazen cell. 'Bound, too, in a prison of rock, was Lycurgus, who provoked the God. He knew his madness when it was too late. And on the Thracian promontory Phineus sons, blinded by their father's wife (Idothea), bewailed their rejected mother Cleopatra's hapless lot, who, descended from an ancient line, and endowed with swiftness by her divine sire, was notwithstanding overtaken by the long-lived fates.' Danae and Cleopatra were, like Antigone, of royal birth, and, like Antigone, were bound in a living tomb. So also was the son of Dryas, himself a king: and this, in his case, was the penalty of an impetuous and defiant spirit. Sophocles seems to have followed one version of the obscure and variable legend of Phineus, according to which Cleopatra did not die, but was rejected by Phineus for Idothea, and imprisoned in a cave, from which she was afterwards released by Heracles. The sons were blinded by their step-mother. The first strophe and antistrophe are choriambic with an iambic close; the second, logaoedic. The choriambi here were probably chanted slowly, so as to have a weighty, solemn effect. The scheme is as follows: a'. First strophe and antistrophe. IILUCI LUCILー LUCILIITUCICートに IICClluclトー IIICCILUCIトに ICICICI KLCICICI CトートUICIK β'. Second strophe and antistrophe. UCCTCCICCI IICCICCII!یں ILU TUCI くいくいトCICIK Cトートしーーー ―トビトCICIK CÚCCICICICC

944. mvp-comment-538-1 φῶς | ἀλλάξαι 'Το exchange the light' (for gloom), i. e. To lose the light. Cp. Phil. 1262, ἀμείψας ..

944. mvp-comment-538-2 στέγας.

945. mvp-comment-539-1 δέμας Form. This word reminds us of the beauty of Danaë, which increased the pathos of her fate.

945. mvp-comment-539-2 ἐν χαλκοδέτοις αὐλαῖς In a brassbound room. The compound of δέω merely suggests the general notion of confinement (Essay on Language § 55. 3, p. 101), and has nothing to do with the riveting of brazen plates to the walls.

949. mvp-comment-540-1 γενεᾷ τίμιος Because descended from Danaus the grandson of Poseidon.

951. mvp-comment-541-1 ὁ μοιριδία τις δύνασις The mysterious power of fate. For the combination of the article and indefinite pronoun, see Essay on Language § 22. p. 36.

952. mvp-comment-542-1 *ὄλβος is Erfurdt's ingenious and probable correction of ὄμβρος. He compares Bacchylides ap. Stob. Ecl. Phys. 1. 166, θνατοῖσι δ᾽ οὐκ αὐθαίρετοι | οὔτ᾽ ὄλβος οὔτ᾽ ἀκάματος Ἄρης οὔτε πάμφθερσις στάσις.

953. mvp-comment-543-1 Cp. Hor. Od. 2. 16, 21,

Scandit aeratas vitiosa naves | Cura.

ἁλίκτυποι is passive: Sea-beaten.

954. mvp-comment-544-1 κελαιναί The Epic νῆες μέλαιναι: i. e. Looking dark against the sea and sky.