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OEDIPUS Did you buy me or find me, before giving me to him MESSENGER I found you in the wooded valley of Cithaeron. OEDIPUS What were you doing there MESSENGER I was a shepherd, in charge of flocks grazing there. OEDIPUS A wandering shepherd, serving someone MESSENGER Yes, and the person who saved you at a critical time. 1030 OEDIPUS Why critical MESSENGER Your ankles carry the telltale scars. OEDIPUS Oh, why do you speak of that old pain MESSENGER I released your ankles which were pierced and tied together. OEDIPUS A terrible shame from infancy. MESSENGER 50
That’s how you got your name, Oedipus, which means “swollen foot”. OEDIPUS Did my mother or father give me that name Tell me. MESSENGER I don’t know. The man who gave you to me knows better. OEDIPUS Then you didn’t find me, 1040 but received me from some other shepherd Yes. Another shepherd gave you to me. Who was he But you said you found me. Can you tell me the truth now Someone said he was Laius’ man. Laius, who used to rule here MESSENGER OEDIPUS MESSENGER OEDIPUS MESSENGER Yes. That man was the king’s shepherd. OEDIPUS Is he alive, so that I can see him MESSENGER 51
Page 1 and 2: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus Intro
Page 3 and 4: Sophocles was born at Colonus near
Page 5 and 6: his own destruction. There is the s
Page 7 and 8: First Performance: 6 th at Penn The
Page 9 and 10: A crowd led by Zeus’ PRIEST gathe
Page 11 and 12: PRIEST The news must be good; other
Page 13 and 14: CREON All those with the king died,
Page 15 and 16: And protect me from all harm. Just
Page 17 and 18: I forbid any citizen of this land o
Page 19 and 20: A man who’s not afraid to commit
Page 21 and 22: OEDIPUS But shouldn’t you tell me
Page 23 and 24: OEDIPUS You live in perpetual night
Page 25 and 26: TIRESIAS Nonsense Your parents thou
Page 27 and 28: I have nothing to say, Either to ag
Page 29 and 30: OEDIPUS It’s not wise to think yo
Page 31 and 32: OEDIPUS I don’t deny it. CREON Yo
Page 33 and 34: OEDIPUS All the same, I have to rul
Page 35 and 36: Anger hurts the angry man most of a
Page 37 and 38: death at his son’s hands. So much
Page 39 and 40: OEDIPUS Is he here now In the palac
Page 41 and 42: and killing my father Polybus, who
Page 43 and 44: Or touches what must not be touched
Page 45 and 46: JOCASTA What are you saying Oedipus
Page 47 and 48: OEDIPUS That would all be fine, if
Page 49: Yes. That’s what frightens me. ME
Page 53 and 54: Please. Listen to me. I beg you. Do
Page 55 and 56: CHORUS Yes. I recognize the man. Al
Page 57 and 58: OEDIPUS Don’t hit him! He doesn
Page 59 and 60: OEDIPUS And I, to hear it. But it m
Page 61 and 62: Time, the all-seeing, Has found you
Page 63 and 64: Terrible horror for both husband an
Page 65 and 66: OEDIPUS What is left for me to see,
Page 67 and 68: yes, you engendered the most shamef
Page 69 and 70: from sickness or anything else: I w
Page 71 and 72: CREON Tell me. I’ll listen. OEDIP
Page 73 and 74: GLOSSARY Abae (A, as in add, -bee),

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