Beauty walks a razor’s edge στὰς   δ᾽   ὑπὲρ   μελάθρων   φονώσαισιν   ἀμφιχανὼν   κύκλῳ   λόγχαις   ἑπτάπυλον   στόμα   ἔβα ,  πρίν ...

ὃς   ἐφ᾽   ἡμετέρᾳ   γᾷ   Πολυνείκους   ἀρθεὶς   νεικέων   ἐξ   ἀμφιλόγων   ὀξέα   κλάζων   ἀετὸς   εἰς   γᾶν   ὣς   ὑπερέπτα ,  λευκῆς...

The first choral ode of Sophocles' Antigone does a good deal of work. It presents the elders of Thebes who evoke the action that immedi...

From a translation of Sophocles' Antigone by  Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett: From the first line, the translator conf...

εἴθε   φθέγμα   γηρύσαισθέ   μοι 1075 καὶ   μαρτυρήσαιτ᾽ . . . would that you could utter speech on my behalf  and bear me w...