| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Is: But mindless is your journey, Though you are rightly loved by all your family | Oh light of the sun. |
| Upon the man from Argos with his gleaming armor | Polyneices! |
| Running in unbridled fear now, in the harsh blaze of your dawn | Polyneices! |
| He came, Weapons and feathered crests bristling in the sun | Polyneices! |
| Before he could slake his jaws' thirst with our blood | He was turned back |
| Polyneices! | Traitor! |
| They alone hurled their spears, and found a common share of death | Polyneices! |
| What plan beats in his mind? Why has he called the council of elders? | Why has he summoned us all? (scatter) |
| Cre: see to it that you enforce the law | We are old. Entrust this to the young. |
| Cre: Give no support to anyone who breaks the law | I am not a fool. I have no love of death. (nod and exit upright) |
| Watch: Nobody likes the bringer of bad news | As I listened, I could only think that this was some gods doing. (from behind scrim) |
| Nothing in the face of the death that must come | He has cured disease. But he cannot cure death. (enter from right and cross to chorus place) |
| His mind feeds on hope. Good comes and bad comes | Human laws are frail. Divine laws live in truth. |
| My mind splits in pain | This is Antigone |
| It cannot be that you have broken the kings law | You are caught in shame. In shame! |
| Ant: You may think me a fool. But folly may be in the eye of the beholder | The girl speaks bitter words. She is her fathers child. She fights fate. So did he. |
| Cre: you and your marriage utterly repel me. | You will deprive your son of his bride? |
| Cre: Death will destroy this marriage | It is determined then that this girl must die. |
| Is a woman to be seen as stronger than we are? | Unless old age has dimmed our wits, we believe you have spoken sensibly and well. |
| Cre: No. You are right. Not the one who did not do it. | And what death have you chosen for Antigone? |
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