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The bloody battle at the gates if Thebes has ended with the deaths of both the former ruler Eteocles and his brother Polyneices. Their funeral procession is interrupted by a Herald, who delivers a decree from their uncle (and now king of Thebes) Creon: Polyneices鈥� corpse is not to be buried, but to be thrown to the dogs in the field. Antigone refuses this order, and demands that Polyneices be given a proper burial. Against the complaints of the Herald, she steals away with Polyneices' body, and
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HERALD
聽I bear command to tell to one and all
What hath approved itself and now is law,
Ruled by the counsellors of Cadmus' town.
聽For this Eteocles, it is resolved
To lay him on his earth-bed, in this soil,
Not without care and kindly sepulture.
For why? he hated those who hated us,
And, with all duties blamelessly performed
Unto the sacred ritual of his
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