![]() ![]() But Polyneices, a dishonored corse, (So by report the royal edict runs) No man may bury him or make lament- Must leave him tombless and unwept, a feast For kites to scent afar and swoop upon. Scene: Antigone and Ismene before the Palace gates.ĪNTIGONE and ISMENE before the Palace gates.ĪNTIGONE Ismene, sister of my blood and heart, See'st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfill The weird of Oedipus, a world of woes! For what of pain, affliction, outrage, shame, Is lacking in our fortunes, thine and mine? And now this proclamation of today Made by our Captain-General to the State, What can its purport be? Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?Ģ ISMENE To me, Antigone, no word of friends Has come, or glad or grievous, since we twain Were reft of our two brethren in one day By double fratricide and since i' the night Our Argive leaguers fled, no later news Has reached me, to inspirit or deject.ģ ANTIGONE I know 'twas so, and therefore summoned thee Beyond the gates to breathe it in thine ear.Ĥ ISMENE What is it? Some dark secret stirs thy breast.ĥ ANTIGONE What but the thought of our two brothers dead, The one by Creon graced with funeral rites, The other disappointed? Eteocles He hath consigned to earth (as fame reports) With obsequies that use and wont ordain, So gracing him among the dead below. HAEMON, Son of Creon, betrothed to Antigone. ![]() Kolbe's Greatest Books of World Civilization: AntigoneĪNTIGONE and ISMENE - daughters of Oedipus and sisters of Polyneices and Eteocles. ![]()
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