byis considered to be one of the best tragedies every written. It
chronicles a very short period of 's current life; most of thecenters around what happened
before the play begins and what happens after he finds out the truth about his past.
As the play opens, the priest and the citizens of Thebes have come to the royal palace
to beg their king, Oedipus, to do something to alleviate their serious problems.
For our city, as you yourself can see,
is badly shakenshe
cannot raise her head
above the depths of so much surging death.
Disease
infects fruit blossoms in our land,
disease infects our herds of grazing cattle,
makes women in labour lose their children.
And
deadly pestilence, that fiery god,
swoops down to blast the city, emptying
the
House of Cadmus, and fills black Hades
with
groans and howls.
The king listens, assuring them he has
already taken...
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