SOPHOCLES: ANTIGONE TRANSLATED

SOPHOCLES ANTIGONE Antigone was probably produced in 442 B.C. Though the part of the saga of Thebes with which it deals is subsequent to the action of Oedipus the King, and also Oedipus at Colonus, the drama itself was cetainly the earliest written of the three, which therefore do not compose a formal trilogy. There is no revelation of events that have already happened; instead, from an established situation, we drive straight ahead, through an unrelenting series of encounters, to the final catastrophe. No other Greek play is so fast off the mark. Yet the tragic irony is here as well, through the shape of the developing action, in the fact that Creon, acting always in the belief that he is sacrificing himself for the good of the community, gives way, but too late to save Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice, who need not have died at all; and in the fact that Antigone dies thinking that Haemon has desertd her, when in fact he was faithful.

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