← Seven great princes from foreign parts, whom Polynices had won over to his cause, were defeated before the seven gates of Thebes. 🔊✎
← The friends of Polynices with their gold blocked in Thebes, the tribunes of the people, stinking of garlic, suddenly in cahoots with the princes, and the priests fishing around to see what they can get out of it... 🔊✎
← Thebes has the right now to a prince without a tragic history. Thank God, I'm just plain Creon. 🔊✎
← Everyone was there. The schoolkids had raided their piggy-banks to buy wreaths. Old men, pretending they were moved, were telling exaggerated stories in trembling voices about the good brother, the son of Oedipus, the prince royal. I gave a speech too. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎