Antigone 388-396

Item

Text Category
Literature: poetry
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
442
Location of Display
Reference
Antigone 388-396
Quotation
ἄναξ, βροτοῖσιν οὐδέν ἔστ’ ἀπώμοτον. ψεύδει γὰρ ἡ ’πίνοια τὴν γνώμην· ἐπεὶ σχολῇ ποθ’ ἥξειν δεῦρ’ ἂν ἐξηύχουν ἐγὼ ταῖς σαῖς ἀπειλαῖς αἷς ἐχειμάσθην τότε ἀλλ’ ἡ γὰρ ἐκτὸς καὶ παρ’ ἐλπίδας χαρὰ ἔοικεν ἄλλῃ μῆκος οὐδὲν ἡδονῇ, ἥκω, δι’ ὅρκων καίπερ ὢν ἀπώμοτος, κόρην ἄγων τήνδ’, ἣ καθῃρέθη τάφον κοσμοῦσα. 
Part of Speech
Participle (active)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Eteocles and Polynices
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Funerary
Cultic: Object: Votive Offerings
Visual Work: Clothing
Visual Work: Jewellery
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: funerary offerings, personal ornament (fine robes, jewellery), a grave
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Antigone
Item Identifier
A02236
Determination
Interpreted from context