By Sophocles
During this wanted and hugely expected new translation of the Theban performs of Sophocles, David R. Slavitt offers a fluid, obtainable, and sleek model for either longtime admirers of the performs and people encountering them for the 1st time. Unpretentious and direct, Slavitt’s translation preserves the innate verve and effort of the dramas, attractive the reader—or viewers member—directly with Sophocles’ nice texts. Slavitt chooses to offer the performs no longer in narrative series yet within the order within which they have been composed—Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonus—thereby underscoring the truth that the tale of Oedipus is one to which Sophocles back over the process his lifetime. This association additionally lays naked the list of Sophocles’ highbrow and inventive development.Renowned as a poet and translator, Slavitt has translated Ovid, Virgil, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Ausonius, Prudentius, Valerius Flaccus, and Bacchylides in addition to works in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew. during this quantity he avoids own intrusion at the texts and depends the theatrical equipment of the performs themselves. the result's a massive contribution to the paintings of translation and a model of the Oedipus performs that would charm vastly to readers, theater administrators, and actors.
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What death do you plan for her? CREON There’s a remote path nobody uses, and out there is a cave. I’ll wall her in with just enough food and water to keep the city free of a murder’s pollution. There she can pray to Hades—the only god she seems to revere. Let Hades show her a way to escape—or else teach her that all her piety is useless. ] Ode III FIRST CHORISTER Love, invincible, Love, who can ruin the richest man, tempting with sweet nights by the soft cheeks of a girl, you range over the seas and into remote 36 Antigone woodsmen’s huts.
That’s how it ought to be. You should give way to your father’s judgment. This is what men hope and pray for, that they may beget Antigone 29 and rear in their households offspring who do them honor, obedient and loyal, their enemies’ foe, their friends’ friend. Of the man who fathers rebellious children who do not help him, what can one say? He has begotten trouble for himself and joy to those who hate him! Never let go of your good sense, my son, certainly not for the pleasure a woman can give you, all too often a troublesome armful that turns cold soon enough—and there you are with an evil woman beside you in your bed and sharing your hearth.
GUARD Yes, sir! We saw her out there, piling dust on the body, defying your clear and explicit proclamation. 18 Antigone CREON Give me all the details. What did you see? GUARD This is what happened. After your terrible threats, we went back to the body and brushed off the dirt. It was starting to rot already and was stinking, so we went upwind and from a small hill we watched it, keeping our eyes open and keeping each other awake and alert. The sun climbed high in the sky and then in the heat of midday there was a dust storm, and the wind rose and the leaves on the trees were tossing this way and that, coated with dust.