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CHORUS All you who live in Thebes, Look here on Oedipus! After he solved the famous riddle, He became the most powerful of men! Every citizen looked upon him with envy. See what a fierce storm of disaster Has swept him away! You who are born to die, Look to your last day. Call no one happy, Until that person has ended life Free from sorrow. 1530 THE END 72
GLOSSARY Abae (A, as in add, -bee), a shrine in Greece. Agenor (Ah-GENE-or), father of Cadmus, descendant of Zeus and Io (EYE-oh). Apollo (ah-POL-oh), god of prophecy, with a shrine at Delphi. Ares (AIR-ease), god of war. Amphitrite (am-phih-TRY-tee), sea-god. Athena (Ah-THEE-nah), goddess of wisdom, daughter of Zeus. Bacchus (BAH-cuss), another name for Dionysus. Cadmus (CAD-muss), founder of Thebes and grandfather of Labdacus, Oedipus’ grandfather. Corinth (CORE-inth), city ruled by Polybus. Creon (CREE-on), brother of Jocasta. Cithaeron (kith-THY-ron), a mountain near Thebes, where Oedipus was exposed as a child. Delphi (DELF-ee), city in Greece, site of Apollo’s shrine. Daulis (DOW-lis), a city towards which a road led from the crossroads where Oedipus met his father. Dionysus (DIE-oh-NIGH-suss), god of wine and theatre. Dorian (DOR-ee-an), settlers in Greece around 1100-1000 BC. Hades (HAY-deese), king of the underworld: death, Jocasta (joe-CAST-ah), Oedipus’ mother and wife. Labdacus (LAB-da-cuss), grandfather of Oedipus. Laius (LIE-us), Oedipus’ actual father. Lycian (LIH-see-un), a title of Apollo. Menoeceus (Men-EE-kee-us), father of Creon. 73
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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
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First Performance: 6 th at Penn The
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A crowd led by Zeus’ PRIEST gathe
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PRIEST The news must be good; other
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CREON All those with the king died,
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And protect me from all harm. Just
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I forbid any citizen of this land o
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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 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: CREON Tell me. I’ll listen. OEDIP
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