Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
"Now let the weeping cease; let no one mourn again. These things are bound in fate."
"Now let the weeping cease; let no one mourn again. These things are bound in fate."
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. Matthew Arnold on Sophocles.
"O god—it has all come true. Light, let me look on you for the last time!"
"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