Antigone in Aulis
Yes, I know it wasn’t Antigone who found herself stranded among the barbarians, but a quite different heroine. Antigone, nevertheless, found herself on trial in the Outer Darkness only a few weeks ago, before a people some thousands of years and miles distant from Thebes; and she came off much more successfully than she did from her old trouble with Creon. It happened thus: a Midwestern teachers’ college invited a young English poet and translator (just now resident in America) to read something to the student assembly. The poet came, and he conquered the Aulians with his translation of Antigone.
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