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| Translator | Elizabeth Wyckoff |
| First Written | -441 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Origin | Greece |
| Publisher | Modern Library |
| My Copy | part of Modern Library Complete Greek Tragedies collection |
| First Read | May 03, 2022 |
Antigone
The passage about 'no generation can free the next' reminded me so much of Philip Larkin's This Be the Verse!
Noted on May 10, 2022
Reread this because it was covered on Melvin Bragg's In Our Time podcast. The Anne Carson translation was so impactful, it was interesting to go back and compare this translation with that one.
Noted on May 10, 2022
These are the people -- oh it's clear to me--
who have bribed these men and brought about the deed.
No current custom among men as bad
as silver currency.
Quoted on May 10, 2022
Dead men's grief comes back, and falls on grief.
No generation can free the next.
One of the gods will strike. There is no escape.
Quoted on May 10, 2022
Death yearns for equal law for all the dead.
Quoted on May 10, 2022