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Antigone by Sophocles
after Hölderlin's translation

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adapted for the stage by Brecht
1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag)

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Sister, Ismene, twinsprout

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out of Oedipus' stock,
do you know of anything

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aberration, sorrowful labor,
shamefulness

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that the Earth's Father
has not yet levied

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over us, who lived here?

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In a long war, one with many,

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fell Eteocles our brother.
In the tyrant's service

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he fell young.
And, younger than he, Polynices

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sees his brother trampled
under horse's hoof. Weeping

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he rides out of the unfinished battle,
for other things to others

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the spirit of battle consigns,
when with a hard blow

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he shudders with the right
someone's hand. Already

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the headlong fugitive has crossed
the Dircean river, breathing out

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he sees Thebes, the seven-gated,
standing, when he is seized,

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spattered with his brother's blood,
by Creon, who from behind

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lashes them all into the battle,
and cuts him into pieces.

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Have they told you,
or have they not told you, what

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more should be heaped onto Oedipus'

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dwindling lineage?

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I haven't shown myself at the market,
Antigone.

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Not a word came to me
from the loved ones more

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not a lovely one
nor a sorrowful one

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and I'm not happier or more troubled.

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Then hear it from me.
And if your heart's beat

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stops still, or beats more deeply

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in misfortune,
then show me.

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Gathering your dust,
you'd color me

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it seems,
a red word.

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Here you have it: our brothers

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both dragged into Creon's war
for the grey ore

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against the distant Argos,
both slaughtered

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are not both to be covered in earth.

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The one who didn't fear the battle,
Eteocles

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shall, according to custom
be wreathed and buried;

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but the other,
who died piteously

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of Polynices's body it is now said,

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and it has been decreed
in the city, that for him

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shall be made no grave
and no mourning.

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He is to be left
unwept-for, a graveless,

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sweet meal for the birds.
But whoever

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does something about it
is to be stoned to death.

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So tell me then
what you are doing about it.

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How, sister, are you testing me?

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If you would help me.

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In what danger?

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To cover him.

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He, whom the city has denied?

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He, whom the city has failed.

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He, who was in revolt!

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Yes. My brother and also yours.

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Sister, you will be caught
unlawful.

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But unfaithful
I will not be caught.

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Hapless one, are you driven now
to gather below

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all of us from Oedipus' stock?

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Leave what is past!

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You are younger yet, less horror

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have you seen.
What is past, if left

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doesn't remain past.

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Think also this: we are women

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and dare not strive against men so

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because not strong enough
and thus obedient

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here and even in much harder things.
Therefore

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I bid those below,
oppressed only by the earth

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to forgive me;
as violence is done me

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I follow the ruler.
For to do what is useless

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is unwise.

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No more will I bid it.

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Follow everyone who orders,
and do

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what he orders. But I

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follow the custom
and bury my brother.

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And if I die of it, so what?
Stilled I will lie

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with the still ones. Behind me

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I'll have brought something holy.
Then there is also more time

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for me to please those below
than here, because below

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I will dwell forever. But you

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laugh at shame and live.

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Antigone, wild one

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to suffer shame is bitter, but

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even the salt of tears is measured;
they don't rush

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inexhaustibly from the eye.
The sharpness of the axe

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ends sweet life,
yet for the one who remains

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it opens the veins of pain.
He may not rest

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in crying out lament.
And yet, even crying out, he hears

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the whirr of birds above him,
and again

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through veils of tears he sees

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the old elms and roofs of home.

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I hate you. Do you shamelessly
show me the tattered apron

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with your dwindling supply
of lament?

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The flesh of your flesh
still lies on naked stone

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laid out for the birds of the wider sky,
already

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it is of yesterday to you.

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Only, I'm not good enough
to thus rise up; and clumsy

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and I fear for you.

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Advise me not!
Make your own life come out!

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But let me do the least
and honor what is mine

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where it has been shamed.
I'm not overall

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so sensitive, I hope,
that I could not

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die an unbeautiful death.

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Then go with your dust.
For you speak insanely

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but lovingly of the beloved.

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The booty-laden victory
is come,

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a boon to the wagon-rich,
to Thebes

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and after the war here
everything is forgotten.

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In all the temples of the gods

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with choirs the night through
come along!

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And, Thebes shaking naked
under her apron of laurels,

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let reign the Bacchus dance!

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But he, the bringer of victory,

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Creon, son of Menoeceus,
hastened it seems

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from the battlefield,
to proclaim the booty and

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at last the return of the warriors,
since he has called together

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and ordered here
the council of the Elders.

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You men, tell it to all:
Argos

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is no more. The reckoning was

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complete. Of eleven cities,

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few escaped, the fewest.

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As it is said of Thebes: to fortune

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she delivers twins at once:
and misfortune

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makes her not soft,
rather will misfortune itself

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soften. Your spear's thirstiness

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was quenched with the first drinking.
It was not denied

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repeated drinking.
On a rough resting place,

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you, Thebes, laid down the people
of Argos. City-less, graveless,

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out in the open lies that
which scoffed at you.

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And you look over
where once their city was

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and you see dogs
with shining faces.

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The noblest vultures
fly to her, they stride

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from corpse to corpse,

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and from the rich meal

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they cannot rise into the heights.

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Lord, you paint a pretty picture
of mighty things.

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And, passed down,
it will please the city,

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if cleverly mixed with one other:
wagons

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driving up the streets
full of our own men!

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Soon, friends, soon!
But to business! Not yet

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have you seen me
hang the sword in the temple.

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For two reasons I've called you

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out of the whole:
first, because I know

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that you do not charge
the god of war for the wheels

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on the wagons that mangle the enemy,
nor begrudge him

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the blood of your sons in battle,
however,

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when they return exhausted,
under the well-sheltered roof,

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there is much reckoning
in the market, therefore

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shall you let me know in time
that the bloodletting by Thebes

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is not above the usual.
And also, because

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the all too forgiving Thebes,
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once again, hurries
to dry the sweat

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of those returned home panting,
and does not

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especially consider
if it is the sweat of the angry

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combatant or only the sweat of fear,
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the dust of flight.
Therefore I cover

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and you shall approve it,
Eteocles,

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who died for the city,
with a wreath-decked grave;

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but the coward Polynices, his

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relative and mine,
and friend of the people of Argos,

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he shall lie unburied, as this one lies.

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Like this one he was the enemy,
mine and Thebes'.

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And therefore I want no one to mourn

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that he be left unburied, visibly,

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a meal, torn apart by birds and by dogs.

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When someone holds his life greater

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than his native town,
he is as nothing to me.

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But he who means well with my town,
dead or

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alive, shall always be esteemed
by me the same.

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I hope you approve this.

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We approve it.

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So take oversight
of what we have said.

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Take younger men
for this kind of post!

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Not that. The watch for the body
already stands outside.

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And for the living
are we to be the watch?

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Yes, because there are some
who are displeased.

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There is no such fool here,
who gladly dies.

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Not openly.
But many have only

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shaken their heads so long
that they lost them.

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And that brings me to this:
more, alas, is needed.

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The town must be cleansed...

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Lord!
Breathless, fastest news

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I rush to deliver. Don't ask why not

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even faster is my foot
before my head, or

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does my head drag my foot behind, for

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where am I going, and how long yet

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in the sun, without breath, but yet

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I keep going.

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Why so out of breath,
so hesitant?

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I'm not hiding anything.
Why should I not say

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freely what I didn't do?

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And do not know,
since I do not even know

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who did it to you.
Sharp judgment

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against someone so unknowing
would be disheartening.

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You zealous messenger
of your own misdeed,

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you demand a wreath

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for having good legs!

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You entrusted your guards
with something mighty. However

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something mighty takes much effort.

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So say it now and go further.

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So I say it now. Just now the dead man

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has been buried by someone,
who escaped, sprinkled the skin

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with dust
so that the vulture would not spy him.

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What do you say?
Who dares this undertaking?

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I don't know.
There was no scratch of a spade,

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and no sign of a shovel.
And smooth the ground

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without any wheel-mark.
Without sign

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of the culprit. T'was not a real grave,

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only some dust, as though
frightened by your command

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one had not brought much dust.

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And also no footprints
of wild animals

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nor of a dog, who would have come
and torn him apart.

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When the first light of day
showed us that

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it struck us all as sinister.

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And the lot fell to me,
to bring the message to you

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and nobody loves
the bearer of bad words.

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O Creon, son of Menoeceus, can it be

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that something godly
has occurred?

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Leave that! Don't make me
angrier yet by saying

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that spirits pamper the coward

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who would coldly let
the pillars of their temples

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and their sacrifices be desecrated.
No,

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some in the city hold
some things against me and murmur

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and under the harness
they don't bow

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their neck to me. I know it well,

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that these have instigated that,
with gifts.

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For, of all things engraved,

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there is nothing as bad as silver.
Whole cities

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it seduces, it lures men
from their houses

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to know every deed of godlessness.

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But know that if you don't
come deliver me the culprit,

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and an earthly one, alive,

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bound over on a board,
you will be hanged

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and will go, with a rope
round your neck, to the underworld;

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there you will see then
how gain is won

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you will bequeath plundering
to one another and learn

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that not all is made for profit.

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Lord, our like
does have much to fear.

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Too many entrances has for us
that place below

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to which you allude.
I fear less

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at the moment,
I do not say, not at all

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that I received something in silver,
though

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if you think so
I'd better turn my purse

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twice inside out,
if there is not yet something in it

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lest I enrage you
by contradicting.

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Yet what I fear more is
that I could, by investigating

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get something made of hemp,
for in high hands

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there is for the likes of us
more hemp

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than silver.
As you may understand.

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Are you posing me riddles,
you transparent fool?

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The high dead found
it seems high friends.

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Grab them by the shinbone,

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if you can't reach them any higher.
I know that there are piqued ones here

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as there.
Many a one will shudder with joy

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at my victory
and will put on the laurel wreath

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with wings of fear.
I'll find them out.

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An unhealthy place,
where high ones

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get in high ones' hair: I

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am, I think, still here.
And it wonders me.

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Monstrous is much. But nothing

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more monstrous than the human.

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For he, over the night

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of the sea,
when against the winter

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the south wind blows, he travels out

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in winged, whistling houses.

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And the heavenly sublime earth,

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the incorruptible, untiring,

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he wears it out with the straining plow

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from year to year

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driving 'round the equine breed.

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Birds of lighter kind,
he ensnares and hunts them.

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And the folk of wild animals.

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And Pontos' salt-enlivened nature

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with slyly wound ropes,

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the cunning man.

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And catches
with his arts the wild things

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that spend the night
in the mountains and roam.

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Round the neck
of the rough-maned steed

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he throws the yoke
and of the untamed steer

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that wanders the mountain.

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And speech and the airy flight

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of thought
and the laws that order the state,

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he has learned them,
and how to flee the humid air

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of the ill-breathing hills,
and the rain's barrage. Fit for all,

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unfit. He comes to nothing.

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Everywhere knows he counsel,
nothing finds him without counsel.

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This all is boundless to him,

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but a measure has been set.

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For he who finds none

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becomes his own enemy.
Like the steer's

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he bends the neck of his fellow man,
but his fellow man

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rips his intestines out.
If he steps forward,

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he steps hard on his own kind.
His stomach

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he cannot fill alone,
but he builds a wall

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around his property, and the wall,

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it must be torn down! The roof

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open to the rain! What's human

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he regards as nothing.

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So he becomes
monstrous to himself.

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As a temptation from the gods
it stands before me

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that I know she is
and yet should say

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that it is not the child, Antigone.

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You unfortunate child
of an unfortunate

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father, of Oedipus,
what leads you

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above yourself and where to,
disobedient

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to the law of the State?

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She is it. She did it.
We caught her

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as she made the grave.
But where is Creon?

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He is coming back from the house.

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How bring you this one here?
Where did you catch her?

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She made the grave.
There you know everything.

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Your word is clear,
but did you see it yourself?

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As she threw open the grave,
where you forbade it.

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When you're lucky
you can speak clearly.

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Give your report.

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After I went away,
as you made those mighty threats

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and we wiped the dust off the body,

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and it lay already in decay,
we sat

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on a high hill, in the air,
because the smell

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of the dead man was strong.
We agreed

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in case we slept
to poke each other in the ribs,

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with the elbows.
Suddenly we stared

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wide eyed,
because suddenly

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a warm wind
lifted the fog from the ground

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in a whirl,
that covered the valley,

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tearing the hair of the woods
in the valley, and filling

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with it the great ether so much,
that we had to blink

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and, that was it, rub our eyes,
and then

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we saw her, standing and crying out

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with a sharp voice
as a bird mourns

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when it sees the empty nest,
with no young.

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She laments because she sees
the dead man bare

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and she gathers again the dust over him,
from the iron jug,

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sprinkling the dead man three times.

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Quickly we ran and grabbed her

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who seemed unmoved.
And we accused her

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of the present thing
and of the one before.

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00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,320
But she denied nothing and was

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at once gentle
and also troubled before me.

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Do you say or do you deny
that you have done it?

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00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,680
I say that I did it
and deny it not.

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00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,680
Then tell me,
not at length, but briefly:

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Are you aware of what was announced

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in the open city
about just this dead man?

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00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,960
I knew it. How not!
It was clear enough.

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00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,440
You dared so to break my law?

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00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,560
Because it was yours,
from a mortal.

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00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,200
So may a mortal break it,
and I am

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00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,920
only slightly more mortal
than you are. And if

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I die before my time,
I think I will,

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I say that it is even a gain.
Someone who, like me,

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00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,080
lives much with evils,
receives at least

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00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:21,320
in death a little benefit?
Further, if I had let my mother's

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other dead son lie graveless

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00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,400
that would trouble me.

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00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,120
But that
troubles me not at all.

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00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,960
And if it seems folly to you

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00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,480
that I fear the Heavenly,
who from above

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do not want to see uncovered
the dead in pieces,

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00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,520
and so fear you not,
let a fool

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pass judgment on me now.

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00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:56,360
Rudely appears in the child
the rude father's manner:

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she hasn't learned
to submit to misfortune.

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00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,040
And yet the toughest iron yields

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00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,600
and loses its stubbornness, tempered

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00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,920
in the oven.
You can see it every day.

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00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:19,320
But this one enjoys
making trouble of the prescribed laws.

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00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,520
And here is the second insolence: that,

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00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,880
having done it, she boasts of it,
and laughs

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00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,840
that she has done it.
I hate that, when one is caught

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00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,200
doing evil,
and he tries to make it look pretty.

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00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:40,000
And yet, she who offends me,
though blood related,

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I do not want to condemn her at once,
because blood related.

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00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,360
Thus I ask you:
Since you did it in secret

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00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,280
and now it is out in the open,
wouldn't you say,

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00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,120
to avoid heavy punishment,
that it grieves you?

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00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,600
Then say why you're so stubborn.

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00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,200
To set an example.

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00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,720
Is it all one to you,
that I have you in my hand?

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00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,120
Can you do more,
since you have me, than kill me?

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00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,560
Nothing more, but having this,
I have all.

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00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,480
What are you waiting for?
From your words,

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00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,680
not one pleases me,
not one will please me

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00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,960
and thus I am also not pleasing to you.

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00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:30,160
Although I am to others
with what I did.

385
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,960
So you think others see it
as you see it?

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00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,960
They see it too, they are affected too.

387
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,320
Aren't you ashamed
to interpret them unbidden?

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00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,720
One would well honor
the people of one flesh.

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00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,280
And of one blood too
who died for his country.

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00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,680
Of the same blood,
child of one's own kindred.

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00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,080
And he who spared himself, he is
of the same value to you as the other?

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00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,400
He who was no slave to you
is still a brother.

393
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,600
If a godless one and another
are both the same to you.

394
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,400
It is not the same,
to die for one's country or for you.

395
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,400
Then there is no war?

396
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,560
Yes, yours.

397
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:18,720
Not for the country?

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00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,920
A foreign country.
It wasn't enough for you

399
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,840
to rule over the brothers
in their own city.

400
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,040
Thebes, lovely when

401
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,000
one lives unafraid under the trees; you

402
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,400
had to drag them far away to Argos,

403
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,840
to rule over them there too.

404
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,920
And you made one of them the butcher

405
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,040
of peaceful Argos,
but the frightened one

406
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:53,760
you lay out now, quartered,
to frighten his own people.

407
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,880
I advise you to say nothing,
nothing speak

408
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,880
to this one here,
if you see what is good for you.

409
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:10,320
But I appeal to you,
that you help me in my distress,

410
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:16,000
and help yourselves too.
For whoever seeks power

411
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,640
drinks salt water,
he cannot stop,

412
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,440
he must go on drinking it.

413
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,560
Yesterday it was my brother,
today it is I.

414
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,760
And I am waiting
to see who stands by her.

415
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,160
So you endure it.
And hold your tongue for him.

416
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,080
And be it not forgotten!

417
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,200
She is keeping accounts.

418
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,040
Divided will she have us
under the Theban roof.

419
00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:00,480
You who cry for unity,
live by discord.

420
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,560
Here I live by discord first
and then on Argos' battlefield.

421
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:09,200
That's right. And where violence
is needed against others,

422
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,880
against one's own
will violence be needed then.

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00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,240
It seems this good girl
wouldn't grudge me to be the vultures.

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00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,920
And wouldn't it matter
if Thebes, thus divided, fell,

425
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,160
a meal to a foreign reign?

426
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,960
Always you who reign,

427
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,320
you threaten us
with the fall of our own city

428
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,400
that it will fall by division,

429
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,760
a meal
for the others and the foreigners

430
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,400
and we bow our neck to you

431
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,080
and we drag sacrifices to you
and our city,

432
00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:46,360
thus weakened,
falls as a meal for the foreigners.

433
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,440
Are you telling me I would throw the city
before the foreigners as a meal?

434
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:56,320
The city throws herself away,
by bowing her neck before you

435
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:02,000
because man, with neck bowed,
does not see what is coming.

436
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,640
He only sees the earth,
and oh, the earth will receive him.

437
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,880
Just spurn the earth, you outcast,
spurn your home country.

438
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:16,120
It is false. Earth is a burden.
Home is not only

439
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,640
earth, nor house only.
Not where one has poured out sweat,

440
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,040
not the house that helplessly
sees the approaching fire,

441
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:31,680
not where he bowed his neck,
not that calls he home.

442
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,880
Calls it and doesn't shield it?

443
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,800
Your home country
doesn't call you her own any more

444
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:45,680
but you are outcast
like biting filth that sullies.

445
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,400
Who casts me out? There are fewer left

446
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,440
in the city since you reign,

447
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,000
and there will be fewer still.

448
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,080
Why do you come alone?
You left with many.

449
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:04,440
What do you presume?

450
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,800
Where are the young? The men?
Will they come no more?

451
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,480
How she lies!
Everyone knows they stayed behind

452
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,080
to clear the battlefield
of the last axes.

453
00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:19,960
And to do your last mischief

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00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,040
and become a terror,
till their fathers

455
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,280
do not recognize them any more
when at the end like

456
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,760
rapacious beasts they are brought down.

457
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,440
She's disgracing the dead!

458
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,720
Stupid man, I'm in no mood
for being right.

459
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,520
She is unhappy,
don't hold her words against her.

460
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,400
When have I ever concealed
the sacrifices for what has been won?

461
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,400
But you, don't forget, in your ravings,

462
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,360
because of your own mourning,
Thebes' glorious victory.

463
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,880
But she doesn't want

464
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,680
the Theban folk to sit
in Argos' houses. Rather

465
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,080
she'd see Thebes smashed.

466
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,840
We would sit better
among the ruins of our own city,

467
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:18,320
and safer too than with you
in the enemy's houses.

468
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Now she's said it! And you heard it!

469
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:27,640
She breaks every law,
knows no measure, like a guest who

470
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,480
neither staying long,
nor ever wished back again,

471
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,480
insolent, packing his bundle,
cuts the strap of the larder.

472
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:42,120
But I only took what was mine
and had to steal it.

473
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,720
You see always only the nose beside you,
but the State's

474
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,680
divine order, you do not see.

475
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,800
Divine it may well be, but I'd rather

476
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,440
it were human,
Creon, son of Menoeceus.

477
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:03,200
Go now! You became an enemy to us
and will remain so below, forgotten

478
00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:07,040
as the dismembered one was;
he is avoided below as well.

479
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:11,800
Who knows, maybe there is
another custom down there.

480
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,720
Never will an enemy, even when dead,
become a friend.

481
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:19,840
But surely.
I don't live to hate but to love.

482
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:25,360
Then go below, if you want to love,

483
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:32,520
and love down there. People like you
don't live long here with me.

484
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:41,120
But now Ismene comes,

485
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,840
the lovely one, the one for peace.

486
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,480
But tears wash,

487
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:54,160
wash her face,
flushed by the blood of pain.

488
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,160
Yes! You!
Who stay inside, at home! Two

489
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,280
monsters I have brought up,
sisterly breeding of snakes.

490
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,960
Come, say it, and at once,

491
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,480
did you take part at the grave,
or are you innocent?

492
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,800
I am the culprit,
if my sister will agree.

493
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,800
I took part too, and I accept my guilt.

494
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,800
But the sister will not permit it.

495
00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:33,160
She didn't want to.
I did not take her with me.

496
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,240
You bargain it out!
With meanness I won't be mean.

497
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,240
I'm not ashamed
of my sister's misfortune,

498
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,880
and I pray her now
to take me as her companion.

499
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,520
By all those who are steadily wise

500
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:54,280
and who converse below:

501
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,640
she who loves with words alone,
I do not love her.

502
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:05,040
Sister, not everyone is good enough
to rise up

503
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,680
but to die
such a one might be fit too.

504
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:16,280
Don't die in general.
What doesn't concern you,

505
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,840
don't make it yours.
My death will be enough.

506
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,200
My sister is too strict. I love you.

507
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,880
If she is gone,
what would I have to love?

508
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:33,080
Creon, love him.
Stay with him, and I will leave you.

509
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,040
Maybe it amuses my sister
to make fun of me?

510
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:42,880
Maybe it hurts too,
and I desire my glass of pain be full?

511
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,000
But what I said to you
is still valid too.

512
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:51,240
That was nice too.
But thus have I decided.

513
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,560
Because I was missing,
you do not miss me, is that so?

514
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:02,000
Be of good cheer, you live.
My soul is dead;

515
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,760
and I can serve only
those who are dead, sister.

516
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,360
Of these women, I tell you, here

517
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,240
one is going mad,
the other has been long.

518
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,560
I cannot live without her.

519
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,760
She is not talked about.
She is no more.

520
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,040
But you are killing
your own son's bride.

521
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,280
There's more than one field
for a man to plow.

522
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,920
Prepare yourself to die.
But that you know when it will be:

523
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:44,120
when drunken Thebes
steps to the dance of Bacchus' round.

524
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,520
Get rid

525
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:48,880
of these women.

526
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:38,320
You who dress up for the victory dance,
don't stamp

527
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,040
on the ground too hard
and not there where it grows green.

528
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,960
Whoever has irritated you,
mighty one, let him praise you.

529
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,840
Don't throw him down so deep

530
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,520
that you see him no more,

531
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:09,960
for indeed, once come down to the ground,
the naked lies comforted. His shame,

532
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:14,200
he gets rid of it completely,
frightened and frightening

533
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:19,560
the outcast rises up,
the dehumanized recalls

534
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:25,520
his earlier form and lifts himself up,
renewed.

535
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:40,920
Patiently the Lachmean brothers
sat in their fire-gutted house.

536
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,640
Rotting away, living on lichens,
always the winters

537
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:50,240
poured ice on them, and their women

538
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,920
didn't live there at night
and sat around by day

539
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,880
secretly in wraps of purple.
And at all times

540
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,680
the threatening cliff was leaning
over their heads.

541
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,480
But not until Peleas came,

542
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:13,480
dividing them with his stick
though touching them

543
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,880
only lightly,
could they rise up and

544
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,520
slaughter their oppressors all.

545
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:29,320
That was the worst for them,
for often the sum of misery

546
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,800
is rounded by the smallest thing.
The sightless

547
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,080
sleep full of moaning,
as if the exhausted ones

548
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:42,040
lay in a time without age,
comes to an end.

549
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:47,440
Slowly and swiftly,
unevenly wax the moons and

550
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,520
vanish, and all the while

551
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:55,080
evil is growing, and already

552
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:00,880
the last light falls on the last root

553
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,000
of Oedipus' house.

554
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:08,360
And what is great does not fall
in itself; on many things then

555
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,680
it falls. As when below

556
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,840
on the Pontian sea,
with the ill-blowing

557
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,200
winds of Thrace,
the salty night

558
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:26,400
tears up a hut: from the ground up
it disrupts the dark

559
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,640
and disheveled shore,

560
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:36,360
and with groans roar
the stricken banks.

561
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:52,680
Haemon comes here,
your youngest son; he is grieved

562
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,600
that Antigone should perish,

563
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,680
the young woman, the bride,

564
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,480
sickened from the treacherous bed.

565
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:12,560
Son, there's a rumor
you've come before me

566
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:17,760
for the young woman's sake,
not as to your sovereign

567
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,320
rather to your father and, if that's so

568
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,720
you've come all in vain.
Returning from the battle

569
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,720
which went well,
through blood and sacrifice of many

570
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,960
I met only her insubordinate,

571
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:40,200
begrudging our house the victory,
busy only with her own cause

572
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:41,960
and that an evil one.

573
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:47,920
As well come I in this cause
and wishing the familiar voice

574
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,120
will not sound evil
to my father

575
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:58,960
when it must bring
the evil rumor to the ruler.

576
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,240
When a man sires insolent children

577
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,200
it can be said only
that he sires trouble for himself

578
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:11,280
and great laughter for his enemies.

579
00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:21,160
You govern many things.
If you like

580
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,520
always to hear nice rumors,

581
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:29,080
don't trouble yourself with much effort:
let go the sail

582
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:34,480
like a man who steers no more,
and drift!

583
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:39,960
Frightening is your name to the people.
So even when great things

584
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:45,520
are aflame, small things
will be reported to you at most.

585
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,320
But it is an advantage with relatives

586
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:56,000
that not all goes by deserts:
many a debt

587
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,640
won't be claimed at all;
and so we can

588
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,520
at times hear truth
from relatives,

589
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,840
because we restrain our anger for them.

590
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:16,040
My brother Megareus cannot tell you,

591
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,160
who fought at Argos
and has not come back,

592
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:25,400
who knows no fear,
therefore must I tell you.

593
00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:28,800
Know, the city is full of inner dislike.

594
00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:33,680
And know you:
when the native turns rotten,

595
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,520
then I nourish my enemy:
the uncommitted man

596
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,480
who neither knows
nor finds himself,

597
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,560
disunited even in annoyance,
one complaining of taxes,

598
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:50,160
another of conscription,

599
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,360
both are kept under me
and separated

600
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,360
through my spear's power. But when

601
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,080
there are loopholes
and the sovereignty too

602
00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:04,000
seems disunited and wavers
and gets indecisive, then

603
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:08,160
the pebble meets the stone
and presses

604
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,760
on the house that's surrendered. Speak,

605
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,440
but I hear him whom I sired and

606
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,440
put before the storm of spears,
my son.

607
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,760
There is truth in everything.
Is there not a saying:

608
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:26,160
the anvil which doesn't lie
steels the tongue? She

609
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,240
who would not let the merciless dog

610
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,760
devour her brother: the city

611
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,120
is with her in this, although rejecting

612
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,360
the dead man's misdeed.

613
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,080
And it's not enough.
I call that slackness.

614
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:48,120
The filth that I've cut off
is not enough.

615
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,080
It must be done at the market,
truly unforgettable

616
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,920
to the other filth,
that I've cut off the filthy.

617
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,920
But you, knowing little of the case,

618
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,040
knowing nothing, advise:
look irresolutely round,

619
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,720
take the thoughts of others,
speak their language,

620
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,800
as if authority could straighten

621
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,920
the many bodies
for a difficult task by being

622
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:23,360
nothing but a small
and cowardly ear.

623
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:27,200
Yet it eats much force
to think of cruel punishments.

624
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,000
To push the plow to earth,
so that it plows, takes force.

625
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,560
Yet mild order,
playing, achieves much.

626
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,600
Orders are manifold,
yet: who orders?

627
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,080
Were I not your son, I'd still say: you.

628
00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:45,840
If it were forced on me,
I'd have to do it in my way.

629
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,680
In your way,
yet be it the right way.

630
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:54,400
Not knowing what I know,
you could not know it.

631
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,640
Are you my friend,
however I may act?

632
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,920
I would that you acted
so that I were your friend,

633
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:06,680
yet didn't say
you alone are right, none other.

634
00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:11,000
For he who considers only himself has

635
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,720
not thoughts or speech or soul
like another,

636
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:21,640
if such a man were opened,

637
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,520
he would seem empty.
But for a man

638
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,520
if there is a wise man somewhere,
there is no shame

639
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,280
in learning much
and not carrying anything too far.

640
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,360
See, like on the edge
of the rain-swollen brook

641
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,160
all the trees make way,
of all those

642
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:46,760
grow the branches warm;
but the resisting ones

643
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,240
are soon destroyed.
Further, when a well laden ship

644
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,760
goes abroad and won't slacken,

645
00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:01,240
she must finally bend back her way
from the rowing-bench

646
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,640
and runs aground.

647
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:10,240
Give in, where the spirit is,
offer us change

648
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:16,120
and take it from us,
where we creatures shudder

649
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,480
and shudder with us.

650
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,160
And let the team

651
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,040
drive the horses' driver?

652
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,160
And the team,

653
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:32,000
when a stench of carrion
hits its nostrils,

654
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,640
from the slaughter yard
could rear up, wondering

655
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:41,120
where it is being driven,
so sharply driven,

656
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:46,640
and it throws itself into the abyss
with wheel and driver.

657
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,320
Know that the city,
spurred by doubts

658
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,960
that threaten its peace,
is already in a panic about war.

659
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:58,320
There is no more war.
Thanks for the instruction.

660
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,040
Then too, that preparing
for the victory celebration,

661
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:06,960
you plan bloodily
to do away with all

662
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,680
who ever offended you
in your house, this suspicion

663
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:13,280
was often confided to me.

664
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:19,840
By whom?

665
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,400
Here you would have merit. Much more

666
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:27,640
than when you want to be
only the mouthpiece of those

667
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,920
so suspiciously babbling of suspicion.

668
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:32,640
Forget them.

669
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,280
Of the virtues of rulers

670
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:41,480
the most salutary, so they say, is:
to forget well.

671
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,480
Let that which is old be old.

672
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,080
Since I am too old,

673
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,040
forgetting is difficult for me.

674
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:57,040
But you, could you not,
if I bid you,

675
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,480
forget her for whom
you're exposing yourself so much,

676
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,440
that all who wish me ill whisper:

677
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,280
this one seems to be
that woman's brother-in-arms.

678
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,160
That I am to what is right,
wherever it shows itself.

679
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,360
And where it has a hole.

680
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:17,000
Even insulted
my concern for you won't keep silent.

681
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,440
Neither will your bed remain empty.

682
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,520
I'd call that stupid,
came it not from my father.

683
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,440
I'd call that insolent,
came it not from a woman's slave.

684
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:29,280
Better a woman's slave than yours.

685
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,040
Now it's out and cannot be retracted.

686
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:38,120
And shouldn't either.
You want to say all

687
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,960
and hear nothing.

688
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:41,760
That is so. And now get

689
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,680
out of my sight. Do like the coward who

690
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,600
spared himself too,
in the hour of doubt.

691
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,720
Take the brat away, and at once.

692
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,640
And I take myself away,
so that you need see none

693
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:58,320
who goes upright,
and makes you tremble.

694
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:13,320
Lord, he who went away in anger
is your youngest-born.

695
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,120
But he won't rescue those women
from their death.

696
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,640
So you're thinking now
of killing them both?

697
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,680
No, not the one who stayed away;
you are right.

698
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:30,160
And thinking of the other one,
how will you kill her?

699
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,640
Lead her out of the city,
where now the Bacchus dances

700
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:39,280
are lifting the soles of my people;
but let the guilty one

701
00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:43,920
be held there,
where the trace of men is lonely,

702
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,560
alive, in the cave in the rocks,
with only millet and wine

703
00:55:47,720 --> 00:55:50,720
as is due to the dead;
as though she herself were buried.

704
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,000
So I dispose,

705
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:58,440
that the city not bring me shame.

706
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:11,560
But like a mountain of clouds
it stands before me,

707
00:56:11,720 --> 00:56:17,320
now that this is the hour
when Oedipus' child in her chamber

708
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:22,960
hears Bacchus from afar
and prepares for her last way.

709
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:31,160
Now he calls on his people,
and always thirsting for joy

710
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:36,000
our city woefully
gives him the joyous answer.

711
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:41,320
For victory is great
and irresistible is Bacchus

712
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,800
when he nears the sorrowful

713
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,440
and reaches her
the drink of forgetting.

714
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:55,600
Away she throws the mourning robe
she was sewing for her sons

715
00:56:55,760 --> 00:57:01,640
and hastens to the orgy of Bacchus,
seeking exhaustion.

716
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:08,160
Spirit of the lusts of the flesh,

717
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:13,400
who wins every battle!
Even those related by blood

718
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:18,320
he throws among one another,
mightily bidding.

719
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:23,200
Never will he be shamed,

720
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:29,040
having this in himself is not himself
anymore. Possessed, he rages and

721
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:34,200
heaves under the yoke and gives it

722
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,480
his neck afresh. Not fearing

723
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:41,400
the breath of the salt mines
nor the thin-walled

724
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:46,640
ship on the black waters.
He mixes other skins

725
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:53,040
and throws them all together,
yet despoils not

726
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:58,680
the earthly realm with violent hands,
but

727
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:05,480
peacefully from the beginning
is companioned with the growing

728
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:10,480
of great conciliations.
Not warlike

729
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:15,040
divine beauty joins here in the game.

730
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:20,240
But now I myself

731
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,760
get out of step, and I can't

732
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:28,120
hold back any more
the welling of tears, when

733
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:32,160
now Antigone shall receive
the gifts for the dead,

734
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:36,160
the wine and the millet.

735
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,000
Citizens of the father's city, see

736
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,520
me walk my last way

737
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,960
and look at the last light of the sun.

738
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,600
And never again?

739
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:59,480
For he who beds us all alike,
the god of death,

740
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:02,960
he leads me living

741
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,520
to the bank of the Acheron.

742
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,000
And there won't be
any wedding for me, no

743
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:12,320
bridal song will celebrate me,

744
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,400
I am the bride of Acheron.

745
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:19,120
But well-known are you going,
escorted with praise,

746
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,280
into this the chamber of death.

747
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:29,120
No infirmity consumed you,
the wage of iron,

748
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,080
iron you didn't receive.

749
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:38,240
But living your own life,
you go alive

750
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,160
down into the world of the dead.

751
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,840
Woe is me, they mock me!

752
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,440
While I, not yet gone under,

753
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,280
am still in daylight.

754
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,800
My city and oh, my city's

755
00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:00,320
wealthy men! But you must

756
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:04,280
bear witness for me one day,
how I must go unwept for

757
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,240
by those I loved and under such

758
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:11,000
laws, to the hollow grave,

759
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:14,720
in an unheard of tomb. I,

760
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:19,800
who do not belong to the mortals,
nor to the shadows,

761
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,400
who belong to life, not to death.

762
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,720
Power, when it is at stake,

763
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,400
doesn't yield. You have been ruined

764
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:33,080
by your angry self-knowledge.

765
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,280
O my father, o unhappy mother,

766
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:42,320
from whom I once gloomily came

767
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:48,040
to whom I come
cursed to dwell without a man.

768
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:54,120
Oh, oh, my brother,
sweet in life, now fallen!

769
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,360
Me too, who was just now still here,

770
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,640
you draw me down to you.

771
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:30,080
But the body of Danae too

772
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:33,760
had to endure
instead of the light of heaven

773
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,680
the iron gate.
She lay in the dark.

774
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:42,320
And yet she was
of a mighty lineage, child.

775
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:47,000
She counted then
for the creator of time

776
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,720
the strokes of the golden hours.

777
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:55,040
I've heard how pitifully
the Phrygian girl died,

778
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:59,640
Tantalus' daughter
on the summit of Sipylus.

779
01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:04,800
She would have become rough
and bent beneath

780
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,840
wreaths of ivy gathered

781
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:12,080
into the slow rock;
and always near her,

782
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:15,960
as men say, the winter stays

783
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,440
and washes her throat

784
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:22,200
under the snowbright tears
of her eyelids.

785
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:28,720
Right like her,
a spirit brings me to bed.

786
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:53,040
However she is proclaimed holy,
holy sired

787
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:58,440
is she, but we are earth
and earthly sired.

788
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:04,920
Surely you perish,
but great. And not

789
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,160
unlike divine victims.

790
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:12,520
And you sighing give me up already.

791
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:17,080
You gaze upwards at the blue light,
never more

792
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,480
into my eyes.
And yet I have only

793
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:24,640
done what's holy
in a holy way.

794
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:32,720
Soon was caught the son of Dryas too

795
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:36,760
during his rapturous protesting
against iniquity by

796
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:40,600
Dionysus and covered

797
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:46,120
with rushing heaps of stones.
And he learned to know

798
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:52,320
the god, groping in madness,
with insulting tongue.

799
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,560
And it would be better too, you

800
01:03:55,720 --> 01:04:00,400
would gather the insult
of iniquity and dry it

801
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:07,960
of my tears and use it.
You do not look far.

802
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:14,280
But on the chalky cliffs with

803
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:19,240
the sea on both sides,
on the banks of the Bosporus,

804
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:26,200
there, near the city,
the spirit of battles watched as both

805
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,520
Phineans, who saw all too far,

806
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,000
had their eagle eyes

807
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:38,840
pierced through with spears,
and it was dark

808
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:43,040
in their brave eyes' circles.

809
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:48,800
For the strength of fate is frightful.

810
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,560
Not riches, not the spirit of battles,

811
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,160
no tower escapes it.

812
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:01,560
Do not, I bid you, speak of fate.

813
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:05,280
That I know. Speak of him

814
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:09,160
who does me in, guiltless; him

815
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,560
knots a fate! Don't think namely

816
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:16,680
you will be spared, unfortunates!

817
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,560
More mangled bodies

818
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:24,480
will lie before you
unburied, heaped up all round

819
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:28,480
the unburied.
You, who dragged Creon's war

820
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:33,200
across foreign frontiers, although

821
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:37,680
he had many lucky battles,
the last

822
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:43,720
will swallow you.
You, who called for booty, you

823
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:47,480
will not see full wagons coming, but

824
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:51,920
empty ones.
I mourn for you, the living,

825
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:56,680
what you shall see

826
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:03,120
when my eye will be full of dust!
Lovely Thebes,

827
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:07,600
city of the fathers!
And you, Dircean springs

828
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,520
around Thebes, where the wagons

829
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:16,440
draw up! Oh, you woods!
How it clenches my throat

830
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:21,120
what should happen to you!
Out of you are come

831
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:28,200
the inhuman ones, therefore
you must come to dust. Tell

832
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:31,640
anyone who asks
about Antigone,

833
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:35,200
we saw her flee into the grave.

834
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:47,760
Turned round and went,
with a broad step, as though

835
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:51,560
she led her guard.
Across the square there

836
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:55,360
she went, where the columns of victory

837
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:59,720
have already been erected.
There she went faster;

838
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:01,720
vanished.

839
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,600
But she too once

840
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:13,760
ate of the bread that was baked

841
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,680
in the dark rock.
In the shade of the towers

842
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,680
which shelter from misfortune:
she sat conveniently, till

843
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:26,480
all that went out deadly
from Labdacus' houses,

844
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:30,600
deadly returned. The bloody hand

845
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:34,080
deals out to its own, and they

846
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,480
don't just take it, they grab it.

847
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:44,760
Only thereafter lay she
angry in the open also,

848
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:47,840
thrust into the good!

849
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:50,920
The cold awakened her.

850
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,560
Not until the last

851
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:59,600
of her patience was exhausted
and the last

852
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,720
crime measured out,
would the child of unseeing Oedipus

853
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:08,320
remove the age-cracked blindfold
from her eyes

854
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:11,960
to look into the abyss.

855
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:17,480
So unseeing too lifts

856
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:21,640
Thebes its soles now
and giddily

857
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:25,800
tastes the victory drink
of highly-spiced

858
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:30,120
herbs mixed in the darkness

859
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:34,360
and swallows it and exults.

860
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:41,960
Tiresias, the blind man, comes here,
the seer. Driven surely

861
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,680
by evil rumors of growing dissent

862
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:50,600
and simmering unrest below.

863
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:55,240
Always conveniently, child,
go steady

864
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:58,120
unshaken by the round dance, you

865
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:00,760
lead. The leader

866
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:03,240
shouldn't follow Bacchus.

867
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:07,680
He cannot but fall
who lifts his soles

868
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,200
too high from the ground.

869
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:16,080
On the victory columns
you shouldn't bang either. Victory

870
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:17,920
they scream in the city,

871
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:22,120
and the city is full of fools!
And the blind one follows

872
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:25,800
the seeing, but the blind man

873
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,560
is followed by a blinder one.

874
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:40,600
What are you muttering there,
grumbler, of war?

875
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:45,640
That is it, because you are dancing,
fool, before the victory.

876
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:50,600
Stubborn old man, seer

877
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:53,080
of that which is not, but

878
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:56,360
the columns erected all around,
towering,

879
01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,040
you do not see them.

880
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,520
I do not see them. And my mind

881
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:06,200
remains untwisted.
And this is why I come,

882
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,680
you dear friends. Even the fat

883
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:13,320
laurel leaves, I know them seldom

884
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:17,200
before they are withered and rattle

885
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:23,960
or I bite into them and taste
the bitterness and know it is laurel.

886
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:27,960
You don't like celebrations.
Then at once

887
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:31,280
you speak to us
with a more terrible mouth.

888
01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:35,480
I have seen terrible things.
Hear, what the bird oracles

889
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,160
portend for Thebes, so drunken

890
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:41,320
with premature victory
and deafened by the droning

891
01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:45,280
shouts of the Bacchus dances:
I sat

892
01:10:45,440 --> 01:10:50,000
on an old stool, with before me
a haven of all birds.

893
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:53,960
There I heard a murderous turbulence
in the air.

894
01:10:54,440 --> 01:10:57,560
And there was a fury of scratching claws

895
01:10:57,760 --> 01:11:01,320
in a battle of wings. Frightened,

896
01:11:01,480 --> 01:11:05,160
I tested the quickly lit altars. And

897
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:09,800
not in a single spot could I find
good fire. Only smoke

898
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:13,640
waltzed rancid skyward
and the sacrificial cattle's thighs

899
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,760
jutted out of the fat
which covered them.

900
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:21,120
Very bad signs on the day of victory

901
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:26,720
and rumor that devours joy!

902
01:11:27,440 --> 01:11:32,400
This is the deadly meaning
of the meaningless orgies:

903
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:36,680
You, Creon, are the one
who caused the city's sickness.

904
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,560
Because the altars and hearths are

905
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:43,440
profaned by dog and bird
who satisfied their hunger

906
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:46,920
on Oedipus' indecently fallen son.

907
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:52,720
Therefore it doesn't resound any more,
the song of good omen

908
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:57,880
from the birds, because they've eaten
the fat of a dead human.

909
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:00,040
But for the Divine

910
01:12:00,480 --> 01:12:03,640
such a smoke has no good taste.
Therefore

911
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,640
yield to the dead man
and don't persecute

912
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:08,760
the one who is beyond!

913
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:13,160
Your birds, old man,

914
01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:17,320
fly as you will.
I know that. They flew

915
01:12:17,480 --> 01:12:21,160
for me too.
I am not quite unschooled

916
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:24,320
in this business
and in the arts of the seers,

917
01:12:24,480 --> 01:12:27,400
because I am not greedy.
So pocket

918
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:31,560
the electrum from Sardis
and the gold from India,

919
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:35,200
but know that I will not let
the coward be buried,

920
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,640
and that I do not fear
the heavenly sicknesses.

921
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:42,640
No human being
can provoke the gods, I know that.

922
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:47,640
But there may fall, old man,

923
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:51,480
many mortals even very powerful

924
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:55,680
with a very devastating fall,
when such words

925
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,840
which are devastating,
they pronounce beautifully for a profit.

926
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:10,440
I am too old to place myself
for such a short time.

927
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:13,480
No one is so old

928
01:13:14,440 --> 01:13:16,720
that he doesn't want to grow older.

929
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:18,560
I know.

930
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:22,000
But I know more yet.

931
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,360
Say it, Tiresias.

932
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,640
Lord, let the seer be heard.

933
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:33,200
Say it, in all ways
but leave the haggling.

934
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,320
All the guild of seers
does love silver.

935
01:13:37,480 --> 01:13:39,480
Tyrants offer it, I've heard.

936
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,080
And if somebody is blind,

937
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,440
then he'll bite into the coin
and know:

938
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:47,320
'tis silver.

939
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:50,440
And I would
that you offered me none.

940
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:53,640
For in wartime no one knows
what he'll keep.

941
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,800
Be it silver,
be it sons, be it power.

942
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:01,640
The war is over.

943
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:03,200
Is it?

944
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:06,480
I've asked you something!

945
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:11,000
Since, as you tell me,
I know nothing,

946
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:15,560
the likes of us must ask.
Since, as you tell me,

947
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:19,440
I can't see into the future, I must

948
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:22,840
see into the present
and into the past and so I stay

949
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:27,320
within my art and still a seer.
Of course I only see

950
01:14:27,480 --> 01:14:31,480
what a child sees:
that the bronze of the victory columns

951
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:36,040
is very thin;
I say: that's because

952
01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:39,160
they're still making spears.
That for the army

953
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:42,080
furs are being sewn, I say:
as if autumn were coming.

954
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:45,680
And that fish are being dried,
as if there would be a winter camp.

955
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:52,080
I thought that was before
the victory battle

956
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:56,480
and is now discontinued?
And booty should come

957
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,440
with bronze and fish
now from Argos?

958
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:04,800
And there are many guards;
whether they guard much

959
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:09,360
or little, no one knows.
But there is a great

960
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:13,680
quarrel in your house
and no forgetting

961
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:17,720
as is customary after happy businesses.
And it is said

962
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:21,320
that your son Haemon
has gone from you upset,

963
01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:25,120
because you have thrown Antigone,
his bride

964
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,520
into a cave, as she wanted

965
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,680
to open a grave for her brother,
for Polynices,

966
01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:38,200
because you left him graveless,
as he turned against you, because

967
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,920
your war has taken from him
his brother, Eteocles.

968
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:47,680
So I know you're cruelly
bound up with cruelty,

969
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:52,000
and since I'm not made stupid
by silver, I ask you

970
01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:55,120
the second question:
why are you cruel,

971
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:58,800
Creon, son of Menoeceus?
I'll make it easier:

972
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:02,040
is it because there's not enough bronze
for your war?

973
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:05,760
What is it that you've done,
mad or evil,

974
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:10,640
that now you must go on
doing evil and madness?

975
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,480
You double-tongued rascal!

976
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:19,960
Half-tongued would be worse.

977
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:25,320
I have now my double answer,
it is called: none.

978
01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:29,320
And I tie up nothing with nothing
and say:

979
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,720
mismanagement cries for great men,
finds none.

980
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:39,080
War goes beyond itself
and breaks its leg.

981
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:43,320
Theft follows theft
and harshness needs harshness

982
01:16:43,480 --> 01:16:47,720
and more needs more
and comes at the end to nothing.

983
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:53,280
And as I have looked back
and round myself,

984
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:55,840
look you ahead and shudder.

985
01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:35,400
Lord, if my hair
had still been black, it would

986
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:40,000
now have turned white.
That angry man

987
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,680
has said dreadful things,

988
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:46,280
more dreadful he didn't say.

989
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:53,160
And so I say: why parse
what has not been said?

990
01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:59,720
Creon, son of Menoeceus, when

991
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:07,360
are the youths returning to
the city empty of men, and how

992
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:12,280
fares your war,
Creon, son of Menoeceus?

993
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:16,960
Since that troublemaker
has steered your eyes

994
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,400
to this, I'll say it:

995
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:24,360
the war that treacherous Argos
has waged on us

996
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:30,680
is not yet at an end
and doesn't fare

997
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,520
too well. When I ordained the peace,

998
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:36,320
there was only but a little missing,
and that

999
01:18:36,480 --> 01:18:38,840
because of Polynices' treason.

1000
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:41,920
But he lies chastised

1001
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:43,840
he and she who mourned him.

1002
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:46,160
And this too is not

1003
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:52,440
at an end: he has turned
against you, he who leads here

1004
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,280
the storms of your spears,
your youngest,

1005
01:18:55,440 --> 01:18:56,800
Haemon, your son.

1006
01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:59,960
And too desire him

1007
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:03,680
no more. He must out
of my sight and yours,

1008
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:08,400
he who deserted me
for the little care of his bed.

1009
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:12,080
Megareus, my son,
still fights for me,

1010
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,920
sending endless thrusts

1011
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:17,960
against the shaking walls of Argos

1012
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:21,160
with the armoured youth of Thebes.

1013
01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:24,200
Which is not inexhaustible.

1014
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:29,040
Creon, son of Menoeceus,
we have always followed you.

1015
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:33,240
And there was order in the city,
and you kept away from our throats

1016
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,920
all enemies from here,
under the Theban roof,

1017
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:42,920
robbers, who have nothing
and of whom the war takes good care,

1018
01:19:43,480 --> 01:19:46,560
and those who live on discord,
the shouting ones

1019
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:50,640
with empty stomachs and strong lungs
in the market place,

1020
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:55,920
talking because they are paid
or because they are not paid.

1021
01:19:57,080 --> 01:20:03,000
Now they are shouting again, and have
unpleasant matter too: have you

1022
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:07,760
started something all too daring,
son of Menoeceus?

1023
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:13,040
When I attacked Argos,

1024
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:16,920
who sent me?
The bronze in the spears went out

1025
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:19,200
to get bronze in the mountains

1026
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:22,640
at your request; for Argos

1027
01:20:24,120 --> 01:20:27,360
is rich in bronze.

1028
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:36,120
And therefore rich in spears,
as it seems. Some evil things

1029
01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:41,400
we have heard and we dismissed them,
trusting you

1030
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:45,920
with the reports
and we closed our ears

1031
01:20:46,440 --> 01:20:51,720
for fear of fear. And we shut our eyes
when you pulled

1032
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:55,480
the reins tighter; only one more

1033
01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:59,320
pull on the reins and one more battle

1034
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,640
is needed, you said; but now

1035
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:07,200
you begin to deal with our own kind

1036
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:10,920
as with the enemy. And cruelly

1037
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:13,960
you wage the double war.

1038
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:16,160
Your war!

1039
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:18,200
Your war!

1040
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:21,280
If I had Argos,

1041
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:25,440
it would be yours again! Enough of this!

1042
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:29,280
So has that rebellious girl
stirred you up

1043
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:33,560
and all those who listened to her!

1044
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:37,640
Surely the sister had a right
to bury the brother.

1045
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:42,160
Surely the commander had a right
to chastise the traitor.

1046
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:47,280
Asserting itself nakedly, right
drives us right into the abyss.

1047
01:21:47,440 --> 01:21:49,840
War shapes new right.

1048
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:52,760
And lives by the old one.

1049
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:58,440
And war devours itself,
when what it needs is not given.

1050
01:22:00,680 --> 01:22:05,040
Ingrates! Meat-eaters, but

1051
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:09,520
not pleased with the cook's
bloody apron! The sandalwood

1052
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:12,160
I gave you for your houses, where

1053
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:16,800
the sound of swords doesn't reach,
was grown in Argos!

1054
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:22,040
And no one has sent back to me
the bronze plate

1055
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:25,280
I brought from Argos,
but bent down over it

1056
01:22:25,440 --> 01:22:30,080
you babble about the massacre there
and complain of my roughness.

1057
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:34,840
I am used to greater indignation
when booty does not run in.

1058
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:38,440
Man, how long yet should Thebes
go on without men?

1059
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:42,120
Until her men have conquered
rich Argos for her.

1060
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:46,000
Call them back, unholy one,
before they die!

1061
01:22:46,440 --> 01:22:49,640
Empty-handed? You will have
to swear to that order!

1062
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:54,560
Empty-handed and without hands,
whatever is left of flesh and blood!

1063
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:59,400
Certainly. Soon Argos will fall,
soon I will then call them.

1064
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:03,560
And my first-born, Megareus,
will bring them to you.

1065
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:08,600
And see to it that door and gate
are not too small,

1066
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:12,640
only high enough for those
who walk bent down.

1067
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:17,800
The shoulders of men of greater girth
could otherwise

1068
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:23,200
crash here a palace gate and there
a small treasury chamber door.

1069
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:28,440
And they might embrace you too
with such a joy

1070
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:32,480
when they see you again, that they
shake your hands and even your arms

1071
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:35,800
out of their sockets.
And if the armour presses stormily

1072
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:40,320
against the anxious breast,
mind your ribs!

1073
01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:51,640
Many a hesitant victor

1074
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:57,760
has been garlanded with chains
and has danced on sinking knees.

1075
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:07,360
Miserable one, will you threaten us
with our own people? Are you whipping up

1076
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:10,680
our own men against us now?

1077
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:12,560
I will

1078
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:16,360
discuss it with my son, Megareus.

1079
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:32,400
Lord! Stiffen your neck!
I am an emissary

1080
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:37,160
of bad luck! Halt the hasty celebration

1081
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,920
of a victory
announced all too early!

1082
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:43,040
In a new battle

1083
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:47,960
your army was beaten at Argos
as it fled.

1084
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:53,000
Your son Megareus is no more.
In pieces

1085
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:56,680
he lies on the hard ground of Argos.
When you

1086
01:24:56,840 --> 01:24:59,560
punished the flight of Polynices
and seized

1087
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:02,400
the many in the army
who took it ill,

1088
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:04,600
and publicly hanged them,
and you yourself

1089
01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:08,160
hurried back to Thebes,
your first-born at once, anew,

1090
01:25:08,320 --> 01:25:11,800
drove us forward.

1091
01:25:13,480 --> 01:25:17,000
The stormers, who had
not yet slept off the blood bath

1092
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:22,080
in their own ranks,
only tiredly raised

1093
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:26,600
their axes,
still wet with Theban blood

1094
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,720
against the Argos folk.
And all too many

1095
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,800
faces turned back
toward Megareus, who,

1096
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:37,320
in order to seem fiercer
than the enemy,

1097
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:42,360
perhaps had urged them forward
in too raw a voice.

1098
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:47,400
Yet the battle's luck
seemed with us at first.

1099
01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:51,520
The fight engenders
its own fighting pleasure

1100
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:56,920
and blood smells alike,
be it ours or theirs,

1101
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:01,280
and it intoxicates.
What bravery cannot do,

1102
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:04,040
fear can. Yet terrain

1103
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:07,520
and equipment and nourishment
play a part in it.

1104
01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:11,000
And, lord, the Argos folk
fought with villainous cunning.

1105
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:14,720
Women fought and children fought.

1106
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:19,960
Kettles, long without edible contents,

1107
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,560
filled with boiling water
were poured down on us

1108
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:28,640
from the burned out rooftops;
even houses left whole

1109
01:26:29,440 --> 01:26:33,960
were set afire in our backs,
as if no one

1110
01:26:34,200 --> 01:26:39,960
thought of ever more living anywhere.
For entrenchments

1111
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:44,000
and weapons were made
of household goods and dwelling.

1112
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:48,560
But still your son drove us forward
and drove

1113
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:51,560
us deeper into the city,
which, devastated

1114
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:54,960
now transformed itself into a grave.
The ruins

1115
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,120
began to separate us
from one another. Smoke from all

1116
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:01,560
the captured districts, seas of fire

1117
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:05,600
enveiled our vision. Fleeing the fire

1118
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:09,000
and seeking enemies,
we collided with our own.

1119
01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:12,760
And no one knows
by what hand your son fell.

1120
01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:17,320
The flower of Thebes, all is vanished.

1121
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:21,360
And not long more
can Thebes itself stand, because

1122
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:26,760
the Argos folk are coming now
with men and wagons

1123
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:31,520
on all the roads.
And I who have seen it

1124
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:34,640
am glad that I'm already at my end.

1125
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:47,640
Woe!

1126
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:53,360
Megareus! Son!

1127
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:04,600
Don't waste

1128
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,880
time with grieving. Gather the troops!

1129
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:11,720
Gather the void! In a sieve!

1130
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:15,760
In the victory rush

1131
01:28:15,920 --> 01:28:19,480
Thebes leaps up and all around

1132
01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:23,320
with grey iron the enemy heaves up!

1133
01:28:24,440 --> 01:28:30,520
To deceive us
you gave the sword away. Now

1134
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:36,840
may you remember the other son!
Call for the younger!

1135
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:40,800
Yes, Haemon, last one!
Yes, my youngest born!

1136
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:45,480
Come help me now in the great downfall!
Forget

1137
01:28:47,200 --> 01:28:51,240
what I have said,
for when I was mighty

1138
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:53,960
I had not my senses in my might.

1139
01:28:54,280 --> 01:28:55,800
To the bottom of the rock

1140
01:28:55,960 --> 01:29:00,360
hurry and release
the one who sprinkled the grave quickly,

1141
01:29:00,520 --> 01:29:02,600
release Antigone!

1142
01:29:02,800 --> 01:29:05,600
If I get her out of the grave

1143
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:10,480
will you stand by me then?
You have

1144
01:29:10,640 --> 01:29:14,720
tolerated everything,
when you didn't demand it. That

1145
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:18,120
implicates you!

1146
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:20,280
Go!

1147
01:29:20,440 --> 01:29:23,280
Axes! Axes!

1148
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:34,760
Stop the dancing!

1149
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:38,760
Spirit of joy, who is all the pride

1150
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:42,720
of the waters that Cadmus loved,

1151
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:49,360
come, if you desire to see her again

1152
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:53,120
your city, and travel swiftly and come

1153
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:57,040
yet before break of night, for later

1154
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:00,360
is she no more.

1155
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:03,840
Here namely, god of joy

1156
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:07,400
in your mother city, the Bacchantic

1157
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:11,960
in Thebes you lived,
near Ismenus' cold brook.

1158
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:17,000
The sacrificial smoke,
well-formed above

1159
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:21,480
the shoulders of the roof, has seen you.

1160
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:26,440
Not the fire of her many houses,

1161
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:34,600
not the smoke of the fire nor
the shadow of the smoke may you find.

1162
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:39,400
Those who for a thousand years
saw themselves her children,

1163
01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:45,480
sitting at the farthest seas,

1164
01:30:46,200 --> 01:30:49,040
have tomorrow, have today

1165
01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:53,240
hardly a stone
on which to lay their head.

1166
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:59,040
On the Cocytus, in your time

1167
01:30:59,240 --> 01:31:04,360
god of joy,
you sat with the lovers

1168
01:31:04,520 --> 01:31:08,000
and in Castalia's wood. Yet

1169
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:12,720
you visited also the smithy
and tested

1170
01:31:12,880 --> 01:31:17,800
with your thumb smilingly
the sharpness of the swords.

1171
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:25,040
Often you walked according to
the immortal songs of Thebes

1172
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:29,680
through the streets,
when they still rejoiced.

1173
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:34,280
Ah, the weapons have mauled
their own men

1174
01:31:34,440 --> 01:31:38,800
yet the arm was consumed
by exhaustion!

1175
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:42,880
Ah, violence needs a wonder

1176
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:48,000
and mildness needs a little wisdom.

1177
01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:53,960
So now the much battered
enemy stands over

1178
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:57,320
our palaces
and shows

1179
01:31:57,480 --> 01:32:00,600
all around
his seven-gated mouth,

1180
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,880
full of bloody spears;

1181
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:07,800
and he will not go from there

1182
01:32:07,960 --> 01:32:13,280
ere he has filled
his cheeks with our blood.

1183
01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:19,840
But there draws near
one of the maids,

1184
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:23,680
parting the fleeing crowd,
surely with a message

1185
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,720
from Haemon, whom his father

1186
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:30,280
has set at the fore
of the rescuing troops.

1187
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:38,040
Oh, much used up!
Oh, last sword broken!

1188
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:44,480
Haemon is dead,
bleeding by his own hands.

1189
01:32:46,960 --> 01:32:50,800
I was an eyewitness;
what happened before

1190
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:54,680
I heard from the vassals,
going with the lord

1191
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:58,880
to the high field, where,
gnawed by the dogs,

1192
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:03,080
the poor corpse of Polynices lay.

1193
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:07,920
They washed him silently
and laid him out

1194
01:33:08,080 --> 01:33:11,600
among fresh branches,
what was left of him,

1195
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:15,440
and carefully built a small hill

1196
01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:19,200
made of native earth.

1197
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:26,720
Hurrying ahead with others,
the lord drew near

1198
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:31,600
the grave in the rock,
where we maids were standing.

1199
01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:35,080
One of us heard a voice

1200
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:39,360
and loud plaintive calls
from inside the chamber

1201
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:43,040
and ran to the lord to tell him.

1202
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:49,360
He hurried; and as he went
he was surrounded

1203
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:54,640
more noticeably
by the dark, tired voice.

1204
01:33:54,800 --> 01:34:01,120
Then, coming close, he cried out
and with a poor moan

1205
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:07,240
he saw the bolt
which had been torn out of the wall

1206
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:10,200
and said beseechingly, yet

1207
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:15,720
as though he believed himself:
"That is not Haemon's voice,

1208
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:20,920
my child's." According to the words

1209
01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:25,400
of the frightened lord, we inquired.

1210
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:31,240
And behind, at the very back
of the graves, we see her

1211
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:37,760
hanged by the neck, Antigone,

1212
01:34:38,440 --> 01:34:41,600
a noose of linen round her throat

1213
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:49,720
and him, stretched out at her high feet,

1214
01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:54,240
bemoaning the bridal bed
and the abyss below

1215
01:34:55,440 --> 01:34:59,840
and this his father's work.
Who, as he sees it,

1216
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,480
goes in to him and speaks to him:

1217
01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:06,560
"Oh come out, my child,
I beg you on my knees."

1218
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:13,000
Saying nothing,
staring at him coldly his son

1219
01:35:13,960 --> 01:35:18,680
draws the double-edged sword
against him.

1220
01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:22,080
And since the frightened father
turned to flee,

1221
01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:25,560
he faltered. Saying nothing further,

1222
01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:30,360
standing upright, slowly he pierces

1223
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:35,200
the sword into his own side.
Wordless he falls.

1224
01:35:41,360 --> 01:35:45,440
The dead lie with the dead, bridal

1225
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:49,800
fulfillment is found shyly in the houses

1226
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:54,520
of the underworld.
There comes now the lord himself.

1227
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:59,440
It is done with our city,
accustomed to the reins and

1228
01:35:59,600 --> 01:36:07,400
without reins. Leaning on women
the defeated man comes, and

1229
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:12,400
in his hands he carries
a great memento

1230
01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:16,600
of stupid raging...

1231
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:34,880
See what I've got.
'Tis the skirt. I have believed

1232
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:44,760
it could be a sword
that I went to get. He died

1233
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:49,200
early, my child. Yet one more battle

1234
01:36:51,640 --> 01:36:56,600
and Argos would be leveled.
But what there came up

1235
01:36:56,760 --> 01:37:01,440
of courage and the utmost
was turned only against me.

1236
01:37:02,080 --> 01:37:04,360
So now Thebes falls.

1237
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:09,840
And fall it should, should fall with me,
and should be done with

1238
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:16,120
and left there for vultures.
That's how I want it.

1239
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:41,360
And turned around and went, in

1240
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:45,360
his hands no more
than a bloodstained cloth

1241
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:49,200
from the whole house of Labdacus

1242
01:37:50,440 --> 01:37:53,200
into the collapsing city.

1243
01:37:53,360 --> 01:37:58,760
But we all follow him even now

1244
01:37:58,920 --> 01:38:02,680
though it be downwards.
It will be cut off

1245
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:06,040
so that it shall not strike again,

1246
01:38:06,240 --> 01:38:11,840
our forcible hand.
But she who saw it all

1247
01:38:12,760 --> 01:38:17,240
could only help the enemy, who now

1248
01:38:17,400 --> 01:38:23,320
comes and wipes us out at once.
For short is the time

1249
01:38:23,480 --> 01:38:25,880
all around is disaster

1250
01:38:26,040 --> 01:38:28,680
and time never suffices

1251
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:33,760
to go on living, unthinking and lightly,

1252
01:38:34,320 --> 01:38:40,880
from tolerance to crime and
to become wise with age.

1253
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:55,480
The memory of humanity
for suffering borne

1254
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:58,880
is astonishingly short.
Its gift of imagination

1255
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:02,440
for coming sufferings
is almost even lesser.

1256
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:06,240
It is this insensibility
that we have to combat.

1257
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:10,840
For humanity is threatened
by wars compared to which

1258
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:14,240
those past are
like pitiful attempts,

1259
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:17,680
and they will come
without any doubt

1260
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:21,800
if the hands of those who
prepare them in all openness

1261
01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:23,720
are not broken.

1262
01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:25,680
Bertolt Brecht, 1952

1263
01:39:33,040 --> 01:39:37,480
Translation and subtitling
by Danièle Huillet and Barton Byg