NIKOS KOLESIS
SYNOPSIS
TETRALOGY
OEDIPUS CYCLES
ANTIGONE OF THEBES
OPERA
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TETRALOGY
OEDIPUS CYCLES
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OEDIPUS CYCLES
B
JOCASTA
C ANTIGONE OF THEBES
D ANTIGONE-
ELECTRA
OPERA
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Eteocles
and Polynices, the two sons of Oedipus
when
blinded their father,
they
usurped the throne and decided to reign
from
one year each.
First
became King Eteocles
but
he refused to delivers power
to his
brother Polynices when passed the first time.
Cursed
my sons
you
did not respect your old father said Oedipus,
Completely
unconcerned that I will live.
Brave
Polynices fled in the courtyard
of
King Adrastos in Argos,
when
Eteocles turned away his brother from
Thebes.
There
he married the daughter of Argive,
and
now chief of army of Argos
he
came to conquer Thebes, get back that belongs
the
reign of the strife-torn city.
Oedipus
gave heavy curse to his children
when
they closed him in the basement
not
to see him Human eye.
By
the sword shall resolve their differences
dueling
for who will reign in Thebes .
The
ringer began to tighten around the town/////
Eteocles
went to the gates of the castle
to
fight the seven warlords.
He
personally undertook to defend
the
seventh gate, the most important.
Teeming
boldly cried over the ramparts,
courage
Thebans
nobody
can subdue us.
The
Argives want to destroy Thebes,
a
Greek city, the fratricidal hatred governs Greek.
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The
curse of Oedipus got place
alas
to Jocasta that was her sons.
Thebans
decided to bury with honors Eteocles,
who
died for his country before the walls
of
his beloved city was worth a king.
While
the other brother Polynices
he
came to occupy the land of Kadmeia,
they
decided to remain unburied and unlamented,
until
they eat him vultures, dogs and jackals.
Man
is Polytechnic and Resourceful
over
and above the town without town.
Brave
Creon this here is that it buried
dead
brother, just saw the open tomb
she
began to lament shocking our souls.
When
she did to leave stumbled upon
and
immediately caught the unfortunate girl.
So
he's like asked Creon says,
spoke
to defend yourself.
Yes
I did, replied long-suffering Antigone,
I
take full responsibility.
You
know that the order is death
for
anyone who cheats and bury the dead.
Nobody
can break the Laws of the City
nobody
is above answered Creon.
From
when the Laws of the Gods are lower
from
the Laws of Men replied Antigone.
Death
lurks for those who you say
do
not show no respect, no remorse,
you
do not think and do not count no one.
Only
Divine Justice defines life and death
we
are beings with free will
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and
make what we think it appropriate and proper
answered
with courage Antigone.
Now
you will know the true face of power,
you
are a rebellious, looked to put mind
to
save yourself, you are too stubborn.
Polynices
my brother how is possible
remain
unburied and unlamented.
His
dead body was flown in the ground
to
eat the wild beasts.
The
order is an order, even if you are child
of
my sister Jocasta did not obey the law,
I
can not make any exception.
Laws
are changing respond Antigone,
citizens,
societies shape their contents.
Death
waits for you whatever you say,
find
a better way to defend yourself, to tell your truth.
Creon
I have nothing to lose,
nor
riches, nor kingdom,
I am
free to say my opinion
without
I have any interest any second thought.
Antigone
small Antigone
with
what you say leads to destruction,
changed
mind to save your life.
Awesome
Creon
even
if my relative do not seem to care,
I
will have a beautiful death, a beautiful ending.
There
is a greater glory than to die
for
your ideas, your beliefs.
Antigone
only you resist with such stubbornness,
Ignoring
the consequences of the fatal end.
How
can you say that it is a crime because I buried
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my
brother fearless Polynices
he
deserved a better fate,
to
be buried in the right way.
Eteocles
and Polynices killed each other
for
who will become king of Thebes.
They
are my brothers,
they
have the same blood as me
how
I can stay indifferent, to close the eyes,
I
was obliged to bury the dead brother.
Polynices
came with the army of Argives
to
destroy Thebes,
this
is high treason against the fatherland.
My Blood
is my brother drank the same milk from
the
same mother divine Jocasta.
I
love them both very much
that
should not is wronged anyone.
Sang
lovely Antigone,
sang
only love listening,
sang
small Antigone
because
only love frees.
Now
I am really free
I fly
over, inside and outside the city,
dancing
the dance last free.
My
son Aimona
Antigone
chose the dead
you
will not marry her, better you find another.
Father,
father splendid Creon
I
want to seem your worthy son but I love Antigone,
I
want to share with her the happiness and misery.
can
not stay alive, chose alone her way.
Father
I want this, this I love,
I
want to live with Antigone.
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Unfairly
you decided to die the wretched girl,
It
is innocent, has pure soul.
She
buried his dead brother Polynices
disobeyed
the laws of the City
He
knew that the sentence is death.
Father
the truth has a lot of facets
the
right is to listen, respect the opinion of Other,
make
a little behind, show that you respect the deads. You went blind from the love
for Antigone,
you
do not know what you say or what you make.
How
I can ignore that I will marry Antigone.
My
son Aimona
the
decision was taken, it is dead
for
that you can not marry her.
Father
at this time you will kill me with your words,
you
realize too late what happens.
wounded
Aimonas lost amid the darkness,
nobody
knows where he went,
what
he decided to do.
Love
is unbeatable,
negate
all forms of power, love means Freedom
Resist
in power, resist in power.
Cursed
genus of Lavdakidon,
my
father is also my brother,
slept
with my mother Jocasta
being
the son of Oedipus.
I
will not have time to become a bride,
I
can not have children.
Fair
honored the dead and what I suffer,
I
paid with my life.
Beloved
Antigone
courage,
courage said Aimonas
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I
will not leave together we will die.
Unfortunate
I am the last Queen of Thebes,
I am
the last free of Thebes
only
love brings the permanent revolution.
Come
my dear Aimona
help
me I nail in the breast
this
double-edged sword.
My
sweetheart Antigone
together
we will die in the same way
no
one can separate us.
Aimona
unfairly I take you with me in the other
world,
what
strikes your heart, goes it breaks
the
sword came out from the other side of your abdomen,
the
blood running river, flooded the room.
Wonderful
Antigone
In
loved with the all force of my soul
let
me touch your face for the last time.
My
love Aimona
together
we will dance the last dance
embrace
with the Grim Reaper.
Lifeless
collapsed the dead body of Antigone
with
a knife in the chest.
OPENING POSTHUMOUSLY
My
beloved Antigone
In
who country we reached now
who
country will accept your blind father.
Unfairly
you wander with me to foreign lands,
you
did not live your life to take care of me.
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My
dear father do courage
we
arrived in the city of the big time.
We
arrived in the city where people
they
think and act freely.
Sang
little Antigone
Sang
memories
traveling with light
dispelling
the darkness of Tyranny,
the
love of the world is truth and freedom.
My
daughter Antigone
helped
me understand in who city we are.
Father
is the city of big time
her
intoxicating aroma enchants the souls.
Tell
me dear Stranger
who
holds the power in this city
the
people or the king asked long-suffering Oedipus.
It
is unregulated and is not dominated by anyone
answered
the traveler,
her
inhabitants decide freely about their future.
This
city will get many privileges
for
those few that will make for me
replied
multimodal Oedipus.
People-
People
accept
a man
who
once looked man,
one
supplicant of the great time.
I
exist, I see, I feel
through
Antigone, this leads.
Stranger
who is your country,
you
seem like a man much afflicted, persecuted
and
despised, seems you passed many trials.
Please
you do not turn me when I say my name
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I am
Oedipus, King of Thebes,
who
killed his father Laius,
married
his mother legendary Jocasta
and
they made four children together.
Eteocles
and Polynices
Antigone
and Ismene
they
are my children and my brothers.
It
was all an incredible Luck
that
does not fit the Mind of man.
A
supplicant I am
I
ask for your protection, I ask you accept a disrespectful
In
the holy city of great all.
I
will never Tomb Thebes
I am
an exile, a fugitive of the big time.
Wonderful
elders
If
you accept me in your home country
nobody
is going to hurt you.
I
Oedipus I will be her savior,
the
man who will protect
from
all evil, from any enemy.
Great
Oedipus
you
are welcome with your daughters,
first
we must make expiation sacrifice
and
libations to soothe the goddesses.
That
you ask I will make
I
will not raise any objection.
Kindly
requested from Eumenides be saved
as
your daughters, this is essential.
That
it is becomes as becomes
Is
Fatal and accept it reverently.
It
is time however Oedipus
to
us narrated your passions, your history.
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THIS
IS THE DEMOCRACY THE BIG TIME
THIS
IS HISTORY
NIKOS
KOLESIS
