ere the will of the gods, she never gave up the ferocity of her conviction that they were--even to the moment of her burial when she uttered these final words:Oh Theban land, city of my fathers, and oh my ancestral gods, they are taking me away; the time has come. Lords of Thebes, behold me, sole remnant of your royal house; behold how I am treated, and by what manner of men, for doing reverence where reverence was do (939-42)....
