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instead of helping me with translation and grammar, my mum would have me memorise the ancient texts, whatever we were studying in school at the time, and as a result i still remember this random verse of creon and whenever i get anxious i recite it to myself to calm down.

#notes #antigone #sophocles

"Now what was left of the ships of the retreating army would be disappearing over the thin line where the sea met the sky; now the smoke of last night's fires was clearing where the still-alive humans below had buried and burnt their dead. They were mostly the female kind. The female kind did the sorting-out afterwards. They worked their way through the rubble and the debris. Hunched and wingless, they wheeled their broken-yoked handcarts along what was left of the roads. It was nothing new. The crow had seen it all before." - Ali Smith, The Story of Antigone

this entire page of antigone translated by don taylor might be the most gutwrenching thing i've ever read

#thoughts #sophocles #my love had to speak at polynices' grave or nowhere #read that again

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oedipus at colonus depicts a man attaining salvation after coming to the realization he was taking sole responsibility for an entire fucked-up family system, leaving his ungrateful brother-children and uncle-in-law to squander their inherirance & murder themselves as his pure soul ascends into heaven.

the original misunderstood trilogy capper, it may be the single most underrated work in western drama.

#oedipus #sophocles