MESSENGER True, but thy savior in that hour, my son. OEDIPUS My savior? from what harm? what aile...
2011-12-15
Whence came it? was it thine, or given to thee? HERDSMAN I had it from another, 'twas not mine. O...
OEDIPUS Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds. CHORUS But here is one to arraign him. Lo,...
death! What mightst thou not have wrought? ELECTRA My nature was the same then, but my mind less r...
TEIRESIAS This day shall be thy birth-day, and thy grave. OEDIPUS Thou lov'st to speak in riddles...
ELECTRA By what that hath been said hast thou perceived this? ORESTES By seeing thy sufferings, s...
Enter, sirs; especially as ye bring that which no one could repulse from these doors, though he rec...
O Zeus, I behold that which hath not fallen save by the doom of jealous Heaven; but, if Nemesis att...
Tell what thou canst; a little word hath often marred, or made, men's fortunes. CHRYSOTHEMIS 'Tis...
to us all, even as we ask! For the rest, though I be silent, I deem that thou, a god, must know it;...
Robbers, he told us, not one bandit but A troop of knaves, attacked and murdered him. OEDIPUS Did...
Alas indeed! for the murderess- ELECTRA Was slain. CHORUS Yea. ELECTRA I know it, I know it; f...
440 BC ANTIGONE by Sophocles translated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY daughters of Oedip...
support; for all is amiss with that which is in my hands,-and yonder, again, a crushing fate hath l...
first of all, how true and constant was your reverence for the royal power of Laius; how, again, wh...