Il quarto stasimo dell’ Antigone nella traduzione di Friedrich Hölderlin

"is paper provides an analysis of the translation of the fourth stasimon of Sophocles’ Antigone carried out by Friedrich Hölderlin, exploring the translation’ s meaning and his interpretation of the tragedy. "e stasimon offers mythical examples that represent different paradigms of the man’ s attitude towards God – resistance (Danae), identification (Lycurgus), acceptance (Cleopatra and her sons). No matter their approach, men inevitably succumb to the power of the divine. "e “tragic” human condition stands at the core of the Antigone