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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 Polyneices.
 
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