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Browsing named entities in Sophocles, Antigone (ed. Sir Richard Jebb).
Found 75 total hits in 21 results.
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): card 1183
Enter Eurydice.
Eurydice
People of Thebes, I heard your words as I was on my way to the gates to address divine Pallas with my prayers.At one and the same time I was loosening the bolts of the gate to open it, and the sound of a blow to our house struck my ear. In terror I sank back into the arms of my handmaids, and my senses fled.But repeat what your news was, for I shall hear it with ears that are no strangers to sorrow.
Messenger
Dear mistress, I will tell what I witnessed and leave no word of the truth unspoken. For what good would it do that should I soothe you with words in which I must later be found false?The truth is always best. I attended your husband as his guide to the furthest part of the plain, where unpitied the body of Polyneices, torn by dogs, still lay. After we had prayed to the goddess of the roadsand to Pluto to restrain their anger in mercy, we washed him with pure washing, and with freshly-plucked boughs we burned what remains there were. Lastly we heap
Parnassus (Greece) (search for this): card 1137
Chorus
Thebes of all cities you hold foremost in honor, together with your lightning-struck mother.And now when the whole city is held subject to a violent plague, come, we ask, with purifying feet over steep Parnassus,or over the groaning straits!
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): card 1137
Chorus
Thebes of all cities you hold foremost in honor, together with your lightning-struck mother.And now when the whole city is held subject to a violent plague, come, we ask, with purifying feet over steep Parnassus,or over the groaning straits!
Nysa (Turkey) (search for this): card 1126
Chorus
The smoky glare of torches sees you above the cliffs of the twin peaks, where the Corycian nymphs move inspired by your godhead,and Castalia's stream sees you, too. The ivy-mantled slopes of Nysa's hills and the shore green with many-clustered vines send you, when accompanied by the cries of your divine words,you visit the avenues of Thebes.
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): card 1126
Chorus
The smoky glare of torches sees you above the cliffs of the twin peaks, where the Corycian nymphs move inspired by your godhead,and Castalia's stream sees you, too. The ivy-mantled slopes of Nysa's hills and the shore green with many-clustered vines send you, when accompanied by the cries of your divine words,you visit the avenues of Thebes.
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): card 1115
Chorus
God of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride and offspring of loud-thundering Zeus, you who watch over far-famed Italy and reignin the valleys of Eleusinian Deo where all find welcome! O Bacchus, denizen of Thebes, the mother-city of your Bacchants, dweller by the wet stream of Ismenus on the soilof the sowing of the savage dragon's teeth!
Italy (Italy) (search for this): card 1115
Chorus
God of many names, glory of the Cadmeian bride and offspring of loud-thundering Zeus, you who watch over far-famed Italy and reignin the valleys of Eleusinian Deo where all find welcome! O Bacchus, denizen of Thebes, the mother-city of your Bacchants, dweller by the wet stream of Ismenus on the soilof the sowing of the savage dragon's teeth!
India (India) (search for this): card 1033
Creon
Old man, you all shoot your arrows at me, like archers at their mark, and I am not safeeven from the plottings of the seer's divine art, but by their tribe I have long been bought and sold and made their merchandise. Turn your profits, make your deals for the white gold of Sardis and the gold of India, if it pleases you, but you shall not cover that man with a grave,not even if the eagles of Zeus wish to snatch and carry him to be devoured at the god's throne. No, not even then, for fear of that defilement will I permit his burial, since I know with certainty that no mortal has the power to defile the gods.But even the exceedingly clever, old Teiresias, falls with a shameful fall, when they couch shameful thoughts in fine phrasing for profit's sake.
Teiresias
Alas! Does any man know, does any consider—
Creon
What is this? What universal truth are you announcing?
Teiresias
—by how much the most precious of our possessions is the power to reason wisely?
Creon
By as much,
Sardis (Turkey) (search for this): card 1033
Creon
Old man, you all shoot your arrows at me, like archers at their mark, and I am not safeeven from the plottings of the seer's divine art, but by their tribe I have long been bought and sold and made their merchandise. Turn your profits, make your deals for the white gold of Sardis and the gold of India, if it pleases you, but you shall not cover that man with a grave,not even if the eagles of Zeus wish to snatch and carry him to be devoured at the god's throne. No, not even then, for fear of that defilement will I permit his burial, since I know with certainty that no mortal has the power to defile the gods.But even the exceedingly clever, old Teiresias, falls with a shameful fall, when they couch shameful thoughts in fine phrasing for profit's sake.
Teiresias
Alas! Does any man know, does any consider—
Creon
What is this? What universal truth are you announcing?
Teiresias
—by how much the most precious of our possessions is the power to reason wisely?
Creon
By as much,
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): card 988
Enter Teiresias, led by a boy, on the spectators' right.
Teiresias
Princes of Thebes, we have come on a shared journey, two scouting the way by the eyes of one.For this is the method of travel for the blind, using a guide.
Creon
What is it, old Teiresias? What is your news?
Teiresias
I will tell you. You, obey the seer.
Creon
It was not my habit before, at any rate, to stand apart from your will.
Teiresias
Therefore you captained this city on an upright course.
Creon
I have felt and can attest your benefits.
Teiresias
Realize that once more now you are poised on fortune's razor-edge.
Creon
What do you mean? I shudder to hear you!
Teiresias
You will understand, when you hear the signs revealed by my art. As I took my place on my old seat of augurywhere all birds regularly gather for me, I heard an unintelligible voice among them: they were screaming in dire frenzy that made their language foreign to me. I realized that they were ripping each other with their talons, mu