thebes

Creon, king of Thebes

And they all think like him in the city. There's thousands and thousands of those people all round us, the streets of Thebes are crawling with them. 🔊

No thank you. Those times are over for Thebes. 🔊

Have you killed! Take a look at yourself. You're too thin. Put on a bit of weight, so that you can give Haemon a nice, fat, healthy baby. I promise you, Thebes needs that more than it needs your death. 🔊

It's horrible, and I can even admit it's stupid, it's disgustingly stupid, but all of Thebes needs that smell in its nostrils for a while. 🔊

One morning, I woke up and I was king of Thebes. And God knows there were things in life I wanted more than power... 🔊

Then look, have pity on me. The body of your brother rotting under my windows, that's enough payment to reestablish order in Thebes. 🔊

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. 🔊

She's talked. All Thebes knows what she's done. I have to put her to death. 🔊

Antigone is calm now, and we will never know the name of her sickness. She has done what she had to do. A great sad peace falls over Thebes and over the empty palace where Creon is going to start waiting to die. 🔊

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