True. Antigone is a tragedy written the Greek
tragedian Sophocles in or before 441 BC.
Near the end of Act I, you will hear Rea, daughter of the Roman emperor, reciting from Antigone. The verses Rea is
reciting are the verses Antigone recites as she is walking towards prison where
she ultimately will take her own life.
As she is walking towards her death in the tomb, she is reminding us and
herself of the injustice of the Gods.
Thebes, and you my fathers’ gods,
And rulers of Thebes, you see me now, the last
Unhappy daughter of a line of kings,
Your kings, led away to death. You will remember
What things I suffer, and at what men’s hands,
Because I would not transgress the laws of heaven.
Come: let us wait no longer.
And rulers of Thebes, you see me now, the last
Unhappy daughter of a line of kings,
Your kings, led away to death. You will remember
What things I suffer, and at what men’s hands,
Because I would not transgress the laws of heaven.
Come: let us wait no longer.
As you can imagine, there is reason why the playwright chose these particular verses from the play!
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| Antigone by Frederic Leighton (1882) |
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