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By Aeschylus

The bold skills of Anthony Hecht, the most talented of latest American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical student, are the following delivered to undergo in this brilliant translation of Aeschylus' a lot underrated tragedy The Seven opposed to Thebes. The 3rd and purely ultimate play in a trilogy facing comparable occasions, The Seven opposed to Thebes tells the tale of the Argive try to declare the dominion of Thebes, and of the deaths of the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, every one by way of the others hand. lengthy brushed aside via critics as ritualistic and missing in dramatic pressure, Seven opposed to Thebes is published by way of Hecht and Bacon as a piece of serious harmony and drama, one particularly wealthy in symbolism and imagery.

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Shall I fall down before the images of the gods? O tranquil, throned gods, now is the time to clasp your images. Why do we stand lamenting when we should be at prayer? SEMI-CHORUS Can you hear, can you not hear the clanging of shields? When if not now shall we have recourse to supplication with gifts? 25 "° SEVEN AGAINST THEBES [101-31] SEMI-CHORUS I can see the sound: the hailstone clatter of spears. What will you do, Ares? Ancestral god of this homeland, will you betray it? God of the Golden Helmet, look, look to the city you once chose for your own.

In terror I cried aloud to them who dwell above to gird and protect this citadel. ETEOKLES Then pray that our towers stand against the spears of the attack— for this does come from the gods. There is a saying that when a city is captured the gods desert her. CHORUS O may I die, may I be safely dead before the gods remove from the city, before the sacred gods have fled; and may I never live to see the breaching of walls, the brutal shame of penetration, the home and shrine aflame. 260 270 ETEOKLES It is folly to invoke the gods with such unlucky words.

A reverent man aboard a ship of hot-headed sailors or pirates perishes with that god-rejected race of men. When men lose their humanity and forget the gods they are obliged to suffer the Fury's lash. A just man in their company is caught in the same trap, though without deserving. He is marked and damned. So the priest Amphiaraos, a man of self-control, a just man, good and reverent, and a great prophet, is joined with unholy 46 [585-611] 730 740 750 760 SEVEN AGAINST THEBES [612-33] bold-mouthed men against his better judgment, men who have come too far to turn back now.

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