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Harvard Classics, Vol. 8, Part 6
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Phædra. Frag. 842.
Sophocles

Harvard Classics, Vol. 8, Part 6

Antigone

Sophocles

Creon, the king of Thebes, forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule. Antigone, soon to marry Creon’s son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother Polynices.

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