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Our war's already ended, and the death Of savage Creon, whose dire soul is fled To pacify the Argives wandering ghosts, Hath satisfied our justice, here we sheath Our sword again, and free your town from fears. And now enterre with fitting obsequies The Carcases of all your slauter'd foes. Let cruel Creon too, though he at all Deserve it not, have rites of funeral. Send back Argia to her father's court With fair attendance; and 'tis left to you To place the Theban sceptre where 'tis endue. No; still let Thebes be governed by her own; Was not our wars intention to enthral Your land, but free it from a tyrants yoke; And to preserve the conquered, not destroy them. We drew the sword of justice, not of conquest, Ambitiously to spread our Kingdoms bounds, But to avenge the laws of nature broke; This act being done, Theseus is peace again. Soldiers march on to Athens. Thebes adieu. Now let mankind enjoy a happy peace; O let no monsters breed on earth, to glut Themselves with human slaughter, let no thieves Infest the woods; no tyrants stain the cities With blood of innocents? but if such monsters Must needs be bred to plague the wretched earth, against nature, and her holy laws to strive, Let them appear while Theseus is alive.
Plot summary
Plot — Antigone, the Theban Princess
Self-blinded and banished from Thebes, Oedipus wishes only for death. His daughter Antigone temporarily persuades him to give up such thoughts, but it is not long before he is dead. Thebes itself is at war: Eteocles has dishonoured a power-sharing agreement with his brother Polynices, and seven Greek champions have besieged the city in support of the latter’s claim. After sustaining heavy casualties, Polynices proposes settling the case in single combat with Eteocles. Both are killed. The new King, Creon, decrees that no Theban shall bury any enemy soldier, including Polynices. He also places Antigone under house arrest and refuses his son Haemon permission to marry her. In defiance of Creon, Antigone goes to the battlefield in search of Polynices’ body. There she meets his widow, Argia, and together they convey the corpse past the watchmen and give it a funeral. Creon too comes to the battlefield, to consult the witches who are gathering Parts of the dead bodies for magical use. They make a dead body tell his fortune: he will die soon, and disorder will come to Thebes. Antigone and Argia are arrested. Creon holds Argia, a foreign princess, for ransom, but sentences Antigone to be entombed alive and left to starve to death. By threatening to take his own life, Haemon persuades his father to allow her release, but it is too late: she has taken poison to hasten her death. Haemon kills himself. Thebes is attacked by Theseus, who has been summoned by another widow to intervene for the unburied. Argia is released and Creon killed, but Theseus allows him the burial he denied his enemies.