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Creon angrily resents every impeachment of his wisdom, insisting on instant and unquestioning obedience. But his son Haemon thus attempts to save him from himself: Father, the gods plant wisdom in mankind, which is of all possessions highest.
'Next to her I saw Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, who lay in the arms of mighty Zeus, and bare Heracles of the lion-heart, steadfast in the fight. And I saw Megara, daughter of Creon, haughty of heart, whom the strong and tireless son of Amphitryon had to wife.
What we saw was the real thing. In the opening scene of "Oedipus," the King coming forward through the royal portal, and across the raised platform in the rear of the stage did literally "enter from the palace," and did "descend the palace steps" to the "public place" where Creon and the priests awaited him.
When the Athenian law debarring all but freemen from the exercise of art was enacted, Creon was at work trying to realize in marble the vision his soul had created. The beautiful group was growing into life under his magic touch when the cruel edict struck the chisel from his fingers. "O ye gods!" groans the stricken youth, "why have ye deserted me, now, when my task is almost completed?
"It was gracefully done," Charmides heard some one say, "but his arms are not so good as his legs. See the arms and chest of that Timon. No one can throw against him." After that a judge set up a shield in the middle of the course. Every boy snatched a spear from a pile on the ground and threw at the central boss of the shield. Again Creon was beaten.
The villages have beautiful names: Monségur, Sauve-terre-de-Guyenne, la Tresne, Créon, ... Créon, as in Antigone." "You have been there?" She looked at me. "Don't speak so coldly," she said. "Sooner or later we will be intimate, and you may as well lay aside formality now." This threatening promise suddenly filled me with great happiness.
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?"
And when Creon stepped ashore at Pirseus, and all Athens stood shouting his name, a chorus of boys came dancing toward him singing his brother's song. Such was Olympia long ago. Every four years such games took place. Then the plain was crowded and busy and gay. Year after year new statues were set up, new gifts were brought, new buildings were made.
And I propose to transfer the question which you and I have been discussing to the domain of poetry; we will speak as before of virtue, but in reference to a passage of a poet. Now Simonides says to Scopas the son of Creon the Thessalian: 'Hardly on the one hand can a man become truly good, built four-square in hands and feet and mind, a work without a flaw.
Sometimes certain affections of the body cause a rapid augmentation of the faculties of the mind. You know Creon? When he was a child, he stuttered and was stupid. But, having cracked his skull by tumbling off a ladder, he became an able lawyer, as you are aware. This monk must be affected in some hidden organ. Moreover, this kind of existence is not so extraordinary as it appears to you, Lucius.
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