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Antigone Monologue from Oedipus at Colonus

From Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

female · anguished · 1:31 min

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I know ’twas so, and therefore summoned thee Beyond the gates to breathe it in thine ear. (ISMENE: What is it? Some dark secret stirs thy breast.) 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. 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. Such is the edict (if report speak true) Of Creon, our most noble Creon, aimed At thee and me, aye me too; and anon He will be here to promulgate, for such As have not heard, his mandate; ’tis in sooth No passing humor, for the edict says Whoe’er transgresses shall be stoned to death. So stands it with us; now ’tis thine to show If thou art worthy of thy blood or base.

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20s · fear · death · family · honor · power

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