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It is difficult to approach a text like Sophocles' Antigone with sobriety, a text that has been sanctified by centuries of theatrical and literary readings.
Even more challenging is to refrain from attempting to peel it ideologically, thinking that this will lead to a deeper understanding.
If those who have passionately engaged in analyzing the famous tragedy over the years could step into the mind of its creator at the time he presented it to the Athenian audience in 442/441 BC, they would surely be disappointed.
However, poetry, even dramatic poetry, is the art of verse, its solid masonry, its harmony, and its musicality.
A translator, when called upon to preserve this perfection in a new linguistic environment, ultimately comes to realize his inadequacy, to bow to the unsurpassable craftsman, and to seek forgiveness for his reckless audacity.
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