ὦ πόλις, ... ἔμπας ξυμμάρτυρας ὔμμ᾽ ἐπικτῶμαι,
οἵα φίλων ἄκλαυτος, οἵοις νόμοις
πρὸς ἕργμα τυμβόχωστον ἔρχομαι τάφου ποταινίου: 850
ἰὼ δύστανος, βροτοῖς οὔτε νεκροῖς κυροῦσα
μέτοικος οὐ ζῶσιν, οὐ θανοῦσιν.
Oh city... you are united in witness to my death,
How I go unmourned by friends, what laws
Led to this act, how I go to be piled into a tomb,
What astonishing new funeral rites these are!
Oh, I am disastrous, neither mortal men nor corpses can confirm me,
as I live with the dead, not the living.
Finished my Intro to Ancient Greek Final! Text is from Sophocles’ Antigone, translation by me.
[id: a comic with nine panels, each with a dark red background and black border. all images are drawn in angular black and white. the first shows a town, and says “oh city, you”. the second shows Antigone Funn, a dark-haired woman in a long dress running with her arm outstretched, and says “are united in witness to my death”. the third shows a dark-haired man, Rudyard Funn, kneeling in despair, and a red-haired woman, Georgie Crusoe, kneeling behind him with her hand on his shoulder. this panel reads “how I go unmourned by friends”. the fourth panel shows Jerry the baker smiling in a dusty apron, and his shadow behind him looking menacing and holding a cherry bomb, with text that reads “what laws led to this act”. the fifth panel shows a collapsing plutonium mine, and reads “how i go to be piled in a tomb”. the sixth panel shows Eric Chapman in silhouette, lit by a thin beam of light and trembling in fear, with the words “what new astonishing funeral rites these are!”. the sixth is the head and shoulders of Antigone, the right side of her body is a skeleton and the text says “Oh, I am disastrous”. the eighth panel is a white skeletal hand facing upwards, and says “neither mortal men nor corpses can confirm me”. The final panel uses shading and softer lines, and shows two hands, one extending its pinky and the other holding it gently. the text says “as i live with the dead, not the living.” end id.]