Excerpt from Sophocles, Vol. 3: The Plays and Fragments, With Critical Notes, Commentary, and Translation in English Prose The choral ode which follows is a beautiful treatment of a theme which this mysterious deed suggests, - human inventive ness, - its audacity and its almost infinite resource, save for the limits set by fate. AS these strains cease, anapaests spoken by the leader of the Chorus express sudden amazement and pain - Antigone, the royal maiden, the niece of the king, is led in, a prisoner in the hands Of the guard. Questioned by Creon, Antigone replies that She knew the edict, but nevertheless paid funeral - rites to her brother because She held that no human law could supersede the higher law of the gods. She is ready to die. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.