Wednesday, October 24, 2018

'a seeming / and after that turning away'

CHORUS
STROPHE
O generations of men, how I
count you as equal with those who live
not at all!
What man, what man on earth wins more
of happiness than a seeming
and after that turning away?
Oedipus, you are my pattern of this,
Oedipus, you and your fate!
Luckless Oedipus, whom of all men
I envy not at all.
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (c. 427 B.C.; trans. D. Grene 1942)

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