Antigone Test Flashcards
“I will lie with the one I love and loved by him/ an outrage sacred to the gods.”
Antigone
“He’s left to be unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure/ for the birds to scan the field and feast to their hearts content”
Antigone
“Zeus hates with a vengeance all bravado/ the mighty boasts of men”
Chorus
“And whoever places a friend/ above the good of his own country, he is nothing”
Creon
“Heads together/ tossing wildly, never keeping their heads beneath/ the yoke, loyally submitting to their king”
Creon
“These are the instigators, I’m convinced/ they’ve perverted my own guard, bribed them/ to do their work”
Creon
“When he weaves in/ the laws of the land, and the justice of the gods/ that binds his oath together/ he and the city rise high/ but the city casts out/ the man who weds himself to inhumanity”
Chorus
“Nor did I think your edict had such force/ that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods / the great unwritten, unshakeable traditions”
Antigone
“I’ve been accused of folly/ by a fool.”
Antigone
“I am not the man, not now/ she is the man/ if this victory goes to her and she goes free”
creon
“I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.”
Antigone
“…you in your wisdom/ set my bearings for me—I obey you”
Haemon
“I’m not about to prove myself a liar,/ not to my people, no, I’m going to kill her.”
Creon
“But the man/ the city places in authority, his orders/ must be obeyed, large, and small/right and wrong”
Creon
“Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence,/ the gift of eloquence, he and no one else,/ and character too..such men I tell you,/ spread them open– you will find them empty”
Haemon
“Haul your sheets too taunt, never give an inch/ you’ll capsize”
Haemon
“Ranking up the grief for father/ three times over, for all the doom/that’s struck us down”
Antigone
