← It begins at the moment when the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polynices, who were supposed to take turns ruling Thebes one year at a time, fought each other to the death under the walls of the city, because Eteocles, the older one, had at the end of his first year of power refused to give up his place to his brother. 🔊✎
← Now the city has been saved, the two brothers who became enemies are dead, and King Creon has ordered that Eteocles, the good brother, will be buried with full honours, while Polynices, the good-for-nothing traitor, will be left without tomb or ceremony to be the prey of the crows and the jackals. 🔊✎
← Polynices has finished his hunt today. He's going back to the house where my father and mother are waiting for him. Eteocles too. He has a right to rest. 🔊✎
← The story of Eteocles and Polynices, your brothers. You think you know it, but you don't. No one in Thebes knows it except me. But I think, this morning, that you also have the right to find out. 🔊✎
← Yesterday, I organised a magnificent funeral for Eteocles. Eteocles is now a hero and a saint for Thebes. 🔊✎
← But I'll tell you something else, something really horrible that only I know: Eteocles, that prince of virtue, wasn't a bit better than Polynices. The good son had also tried to have his dad assassinated, the loyal prince had also decided to sell Thebes to the highest bidder. 🔊✎
← Don't you think that's kind of funny? Polynices is now rotting in the sunshine because he was guilty of treason, but I have proof that Eteocles, the guy asleep in his marble tomb, was going to do just the same thing. It was just a throw of the dice that Polynices got in first. 🔊✎
← You'll see, it will become a simple, hard little thing that you can nibble on as you sit in the sun. They'll tell you the opposite because they need your strength and swiftness. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me either when I give my next speech in front of Eteocles' tomb. It won't be true. Nothing is true except the things you don't say... 🔊✎