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Updated: June 20, 2025
There is nothing in the modern drama more rhetorically impressive, though spasmodic, than the well-known dialogue between Antigone and Creon: 'Cr. Scegliesti? 'Ant. Ho scelto. 'Cr. Emon? 'Ant. Morte. 'Cr. L'avrai! Goldoni's comedies, again, have not enough of serious thought or of true creative imagination to be works of high art.
So was the doom of the house of Oedipus accomplished; and yet not all, as shall be told in the story of Antigone, who was the sister of these two. When the two brothers, the sons of King Oedipus, had fallen each by the hand of the other, the kingdom fell to Creon their uncle.
They say of us that we live a life free from danger, but they fight in wars. It is false. I would rather face battle thrice than childbirth once." Desolate, far away from her father's home, she begs the Chorus to be silent if she can devise punishment for Jason. Creon comes forth, uneasy at some vague threats which Medea has uttered and afraid of her skill as a sorceress.
Are you carrying him to the nymphs on Mount Nysa?" And then more softly still he said, "Do not forget Creon, blessed god." When his father came back he found him still gazing into the quiet face and smiling tenderly with love of the beautiful thing. As Menon led him away, he waved a loving farewell to the god.
So it was all the way, and he gave a glad shout as he touched the goal post. Charmides heard men all about him say: "A beautiful run!" "How easily he steps!" "We shall see him do something in the last heat." "Who is he?" And when the herald announced the name of the winner, the benches buzzed with, "Creon, Creon, son of Menon the Athenian." Four more groups were called and ran.
After a song from the chorus, in which are imbodied the doubt, the trouble, the terror which the audience may begin to feel and here it may be observed, that with Sophocles the chorus always carries on, not the physical, but the moral, progress of the drama Creon enters, informed of the suspicion against himself which Oedipus had expressed.
Creon recoils the attendants enter within the cavern they behold Antigone, who, in the horror of that deathlike solitude, had strangled herself with the zone of her robe; and there was her lover lying beside, his arms clasped around her waist. Creon at length advances, perceives his son, and conjures him to come forth.
So the prophet departed and the old men were sore afraid and said: "He hath spoken terrible things, O King; nor ever since these gray hairs were black have we known him say that which was false." "Even so," said the king, "and I am troubled in heart and yet am loath to depart from my purpose." "King Creon," said the old men, "thou needest good counsel." "What, then, would ye have done?"
Seeing his father, he made a murderous attack on him; when it failed, he drew his sword and fell on it thus in death the two lovers were not separated. In an ominous silence the Queen departs. Creon enters with his son's body, to be utterly shattered by a second and an unexpected blow, for his wife has slain herself. Broken and helpless he admits his fault, while the Chorus sing in conclusion:
Creon, who, with his sister, had been among the first to find his way to the Agora that morning, rushed forward, and, flinging himself at the ruler's feet, cried "O Pericles! forgive and save the maid. She is my sister. I am the culprit. The group is the work of my hands, the hands of a slave."
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