Literature > Antigone

... only against Death shall he call for aid in vain ... – UTV, 2.

Lowry cites in his epigraph the second long speech of the Chorus, after Antigone's forbidden burial of Polyneices is discovered.

Below: 'Antigone in front of the dead Polynices' by Nikiforos Lytras (1832-1904). Oil on canvas, 1865. Athens – National Gallery of Greece and Alexandros Soutzos Museum.