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Oedipus the King

2019-10-15
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Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the play, Oedipus is the beloved ruler of the city of Thebes, whose citizens have been stricken by a plague. Consulting the Delphic oracle, Oedipus is told that the plague will cease only when the murderer of Queen Jocasta's first husband, King Laius, has been found and punished for his deed. Oedipus resolves to find Laius's killer. His investigation turns into an obsessive reconstruction of his own hidden past when he discovers that the old man he killed when he first approached Thebes as a youth was none other than Laius. At the end, Jocasta hangs herself in shame, and the guilt-stricken Oedipus blinds himself.

Oedipus, King of Thebes

1865
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Download or read book Oedipus, King of Thebes written by Sophocles. This book was released on 1865. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone

2021-01-01 Self-Help
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Download or read book Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone written by Sophocles. This book was released on 2021-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius." -Preface

Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus the King: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics)

2019-03-13 Drama
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Download or read book Oedipus Rex Or Oedipus the King: (annotated) (Worldwide Classics) written by Sophocles. This book was released on 2019-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus, King of Thebes, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to ask advice of the oracle at Delphi, concerning a plague ravaging Thebes. Creon returns to report that the plague is the result of religious pollution, since the murderer of their former king, Laius, has never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him for causing the plague.Oedipus summons the blind prophet Tiresias for help. When Tiresias arrives he claims to know the answers to Oedipus's questions, but refuses to speak, instead telling him to abandon his search. Oedipus is enraged by Tiresias' refusal, and verbally accuses him of complicity in Laius' murder. Outraged, Tiresias tells the king that Oedipus himself is the murderer ("You yourself are the criminal you seek"). Oedipus cannot see how this could be, and concludes that the prophet must have been paid off by Creon in an attempt to undermine him. The two argue vehemently, as Oedipus mocks Tiresias' lack of sight, and Tiresias in turn tells Oedipus that he himself is blind. Eventually Tiresias leaves, muttering darkly that when the murderer is discovered he shall be a native citizen of Thebes, brother and father to his own children, and son and husband to his own mother.

Sophocles' Oedipus the King

2004 Blind
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Book Synopsis Sophocles' Oedipus the King by : Sirish Rao

Download or read book Sophocles' Oedipus the King written by Sirish Rao. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a retelling of the classic Greek tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother and then puts out his own eyes when he discovers the truth.

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