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SHEPHERD If I speak, I’ll die more surely that way. OEDIPUS This man is wasting our time. 1160 SHEPHERD No. I already told you I gave him the child. OEDIPUS Where did you get it from Was it your own, or someone else’s SHEPHERD It wasn’t my own. Someone gave it to me. OEDIPUS From what citizen, and from what home SHEPHERD Please, by god, don’t ask any more. OEDIPUS You are a dead man, if I have to ask again. SHEPHERD It was someone from Laius’ palace. OEDIPUS A slave, or one of Laius’ family SHEPHERD Oh. Now I’m on the verge of revealing something terrible. 58
OEDIPUS And I, to hear it. But it must be heard. 1170 It was said that the child was Laius’, but his wife inside could tell you best. Did she give it to you SHEPHERD OEDIPUS SHEPHERD Yes. OEDIPUS Why SHEPHERD To kill it. OEDIPUS How could a mother do that SHEPHERD From fear of prophecies. OEDIPUS That said what SHEPHERD That he would kill his parents. OEDIPUS Why did you give the baby to this old man SHEPHERD I pitied it. I thought he could take it to another country. 59
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Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus Intro
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Sophocles was born at Colonus near
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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 and 50: Yes. That’s what frightens me. ME
Page 51 and 52: That’s how you got your name, Oed
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: OEDIPUS Don’t hit him! He doesn
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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