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"Antigone" by Sophocles, List 2

Tue Jul 15 14:59:55 EDT 2025
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After defying her uncle, the king of Thebes, Antigone is sentenced to death. This classical tragedy, translated from the Greek by Francis Storr, explores the tension between duty and family.

This list covers vocabulary from "I had misgivings from the first"–"a woman proved his match."

Here are links to our lists for the play: List 1, List 2, List 3

Here is a link to our list for Oedipus the King by Sophocles.
arrant
Is it not arrant folly to pretend
That gods would have a thought for this dead man?
bestow
Or perchance
The gods bestow their favors on the bad.
malcontent
I have long noted malcontents
Who wagged their heads, and kicked against the yoke,
Misliking these my orders, and my rule.
suborn
'Tis they, I warrant, who suborned my guards
By bribes.
inveterate
What an inveterate babbler! get thee gone!
brazen
Anon she gathered handfuls of dry dust,
Then, holding high a well-wrought brazen urn,
Thrice on the dead she poured a lustral stream.
immutable
Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man,
Could'st by a breath annul and override
The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.
insolence
But this proud girl, in insolence well-schooled,
First overstepped the established law, and then—
A second and worse act of insolence—
She boasts and glories in her wickedness.
abjure
Say, didst thou too abet
This crime, or dost abjure all privity?
piety
O sister, scorn me not, let me but share
Thy work of piety, and with thee die.
bereft
What would life profit me bereft of thee?
quell
Thy might, O Zeus, what mortal power can quell?
Not sleep that lays all else beneath its spell,
Nor moons that never tire
sublime
...untouched by Time,
Throned in the dazzling light
That crowns Olympus' height,
Thou reignest King, omnipotent, sublime.
submissive
For 'tis the hope of parents they may rear
A brood of sons submissive, keen to avenge
Their father's wrongs, and count his friends their own.
dissipate
What evils are not wrought by Anarchy!
She ruins States, and overthrows the home,
She dissipates and routs the embattled host;
While discipline preserves the ordered ranks.

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