Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Sophocles

Sophocles (c. 496-406/405 BCE)

“If a man could wail his own dirge before he dies, he’d never finish.”

  • From Sophocles’ Antigone, approximately between lines 880-890, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 1982, 1984, 2018).

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