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Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
"Now let the weeping cease; let no one mourn again. These things are bound in fate."
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Sophocles
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. Matthew Arnold on Sophocles.
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Sophocles Oedipus Rex
"O god—it has all come true. Light, let me look on you for the last time!"
Antigone
Sophocles Antigone
"What law of the mighty gods have I transgressed? Why look to the heavens any more, tormented as I am? Whom to call, what allies? Devout as I am, they call me impious—and so for my piety, I am destroyed." — Translated by Robert Fagles