But I say to the rulers of the Cadmaeans, if not another single person is willing to take part with me in burying him, I will bury him, and will expose myself (178) to peril by burying my brother. And I feel no shame at being guilty of this disobedient insubordination against the city. Powerful is the tie of the common womb from which we sprung, from a wretched mother and a hapless sire. Wherefore, my soul, do thou, willing with the willing share in his woes, with the dead, thou living, with sisterly feeling--and nought shall lean-bellied wolves tear his flesh--let no one suppose it. All woman though I be, I will contrive a tomb and a deep-dug grave for him, bearing earth in the bosom-fold of my fine linen robe, and I myself will cover him; let none imagine the contrary: an effective scheme shall aid my boldness. (HER: I bid thee not to act despite the state in this matter.) I bid thee not announce to me superfluous things. (HER: Yet stern is a people that has just escaped troubles.) Ay, call it stern (179) --yet this (corpse) shall not lie unburied.

Ant Monologue from Seven Against Thebes

Rehearse Ant's monologue