1 Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Introduced and Translated by ...

when it was going through stormy times:
rescue it again, and bring it safely to harbor.
Please tell me what has angered you so much
JOCASTA (to OEDIPUS)
OEDIPUS
I shall. I respect you more than everyone here. 700
Creon was plotting against me.
Tell me the details.
He says I killed Laius.
JOCASTA
OEDIPUS
JOCASTA
Did he see you, or did he learn this from someone else
OEDIPUS
He cleverly covered his own guilt
by sending a prophet to accuse me with his lies.
JOCASTA
I’ll set your mind at peace. Listen to me.
No mortal can be a prophet, and I’ll prove it to you. 710
Laius was given a prophecy,
not from Apollo, but his priests,
who said that he would die at the hands of his son.
What happened
Laius was killed by robbers
at the place where three roads meet.
When his baby son was three days old,
his ankles were bound together,
and he was left to die on a wild mountainside.
So Apollo’s oracle did not come to pass: 720
the son did not kill his father;
Laius did not suffer what he feared,
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