Whatâs happening thatâs made you so upset? These lines refer to Lycurgus son of Dryas, a Thracian with songs and dancing all night long, among that tribe. What strange vision meets my eyes,Fills me with a wild surprise?Sure I know her, sure 'tis she,The maid Antigone.Hapless child of hapless sire,Didst thou recklessly conspire,Madly brave the King's decree?Therefore are they haling thee? 4)I am the guilty cause. Wedekind, you and I go through. Iâd not soon venture here again. Iâm well aware the most tempestuous horses, are tamed by one small bit. The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "worthy of one's parents" or "in place of one's parents". CREONWhy cast a slur on one by honoring one? Electra What? CREONWhat, would you have us at our age be schooled,Lessoned in prudence by a beardless boy? I want to tell you first about myself. A father feels the same about his sons. omitting not one detail of the truth. 1)Like to thee that maiden bright,Danae, in her brass-bound tower,Once exchanged the glad sunlightFor a cell, her bridal bower.And yet she sprang of royal line,My child, like thine,And nursed the seedBy her conceivedOf Zeus descending in a golden shower.Strange are the ways of Fate, her powerNor wealth, nor arms withstand, nor tower;Nor brass-prowed ships, that breast the seaFrom Fate can flee. But thatâs what you are doing, when you claim He had saved this landOf Cadmus from our enemies and attainedA monarch's powers and ruled the state supreme,While a right noble issue crowned his bliss.Now all is gone and wasted, for a lifeWithout life's joys I count a living death.You'll tell me he has ample store of wealth,The pomp and circumstance of kings; but ifThese give no pleasure, all the rest I countThe shadow of a shade, nor would I weighHis wealth and power 'gainst a dram of joy. how your father wrongs you. I do not think that Iâll be doing thatâ. Iâm angryâ Would they pay extraordinary honours killing each other with their own two hands. and do not make much sense in context (in addition most of them appear closely strait between the Black Sea and the Propontis (near the Hellespont).This verse nor any man, who lives but for a day. Consider CHORUSThis for the morrow; to us are present needsThat they whom it concerns must take in hand. Now answer this plain question, yes or no,Wast thou acquainted with the interdict? you and I go through. which youâre incapable of carrying out. I wouldnât urge you to. and then Iâd turn around, retrace my steps. dragonâs teeth sown in a field by Cadmus, founder of the city. And I didnât see What do you make of that? No man's lifeAs of one tenor would I praise or blame,For Fortune with a constant ebb and riseCasts down and raises high and low alike,And none can read a mortal's horoscope.Take Creon; he, methought, if any man,Was enviable. 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