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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 408-425
nan Though you are king, the right of reply must be considered the same for both: over that I have control.
nan Though you are king, the right of reply must be considered the same for both: over that I have control.
nan For I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.
nan For I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.
nan For I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.
nan For I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.
nan For I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.
nan Do you know who your parents are? You have been an unwitting enemy to your own kin, both in the Underworld and on the earth above, and the double lash of your mother’s and your father’s curse will one day drive you from this land in dreadful haste, with darkness upon those eyes of yours which now can see.
nan Do you know who your parents are? You have been an unwitting enemy to your own kin, both in the Underworld and on the earth above, and the double lash of your mother’s and your father’s curse will one day drive you from this land in dreadful haste, with darkness upon those eyes of yours which now can see.
nan Do you know who your parents are? You have been an unwitting enemy to your own kin, both in the Underworld and on the earth above, and the double lash of your mother’s and your father’s curse will one day drive you from this land in dreadful haste, with darkness upon those eyes of yours which now can see.
nan Do you know who your parents are? You have been an unwitting enemy to your own kin, both in the Underworld and on the earth above, and the double lash of your mother’s and your father’s curse will one day drive you from this land in dreadful haste, with darkness upon those eyes of yours which now can see.
nan Do you know who your parents are? You have been an unwitting enemy to your own kin, both in the Underworld and on the earth above, and the double lash of your mother’s and your father’s curse will one day drive you from this land in dreadful haste, with darkness upon those eyes of yours which now can see.
nan This is no time to wrangle but consult How best we may fulfill the oracle. TEIRESIAS: King as thou art, free speech at least is mine To make reply; in this I am thy peer. I own no lord but Loxias; him I serve And ne'er can stand enrolled as Creon's man. Thus then I answer: since thou hast not spared To twit me with my blindness — thou hast eyes, Yet see'st not in what misery thou art fallen, Nor where thou dwellest nor with whom for mate. Dost know thy lineage? Nay, thou know'st it not, And all unwitting art a double foe To thine own kin, the living and the dead; Aye and the dogging curse of mother and sire One day shall drive thee, like a two-edged sword, Beyond our borders, and the eyes that now See clear shall henceforward endless night. Ah whither shall thy bitter cry not reach, What crag in all Cithaeron but shall then Reverberate thy wail, when thou hast found
nan What place will be harbor to your cries, what part of all Cithaeron will not ring with them soon, when you have learned the meaning of the nuptials in which, within that house, you found a fatal haven, after a voyage so fair? And you have not guessed at a throng of other ill
nan What place will be harbor to your cries, what part of all Cithaeron will not ring with them soon, when you have learned the meaning of the nuptials in which, within that house, you found a fatal haven, after a voyage so fair? And you have not guessed at a throng of other ill
nan What place will be harbor to your cries, what part of all Cithaeron will not ring with them soon, when you have learned the meaning of the nuptials in which, within that house, you found a fatal haven, after a voyage so fair? And you have not guessed at a throng of other ill
nan What place will be harbor to your cries, what part of all Cithaeron will not ring with them soon, when you have learned the meaning of the nuptials in which, within that house, you found a fatal haven, after a voyage so fair? And you have not guessed at a throng of other ill
nan What place will be harbor to your cries, what part of all Cithaeron will not ring with them soon, when you have learned the meaning of the nuptials in which, within that house, you found a fatal haven, after a voyage so fair? And you have not guessed at a throng of other ill
nan which will bring you level with your true self and with your own children. Therefore heap your scorn upon Creon and upon my message: for no man will ever be crushed more miserably than you. Oedipu

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6. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 50-53, 106 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
action, and the characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
agōn scene	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
ajax, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
ajax (sophocles), and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
ajax (sophocles), and social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
ajax (sophocles), seer in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
anger, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
antigone (sophocles), a seer in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
antigone (sophocles), and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
antigone (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
antigone (sophocles), and social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
burial, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
calchas, as the voice of the gods	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
chrysothemis, nature of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
creon, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
creon, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
dialogue, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
dramatis personae	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
electra, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
electra (sophocles), and the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
electra (sophocles), characters in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
episodes, of oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
eurydice, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
general parodos, of oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
gods, and humans	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
haemon, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
haemon, and the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
hierarchy, of social function	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
humans, and the gods	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
interpreters, of the gods	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
ismene, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
jocasta (epicaste), and tiresias	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
jocasta (epicaste), in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
menelaus, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
oedipus, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
oedipus, and tiresias	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
oedipus, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
oedipus rex as turannos, tiresias	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
oedipus the king (sophocles), and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
oedipus the king (sophocles), and social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
oedipus the king (sophocles), seer in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
oracle, challenges to	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
past, the, and oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
prodicus	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 162
prophetic language	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
pylades, action of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
royalty, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
seers, challenges to	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
seers, in the social hierarchy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
segal, c. p.'	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 162
sentences, ambiguous or elliptic	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
servants, social function of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
social function, of characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317
socrates	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
sophoclean language, ambiguous, elliptic or vague	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, clarity	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, creates trust in something that is there	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, evokes situations	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean unlike gorgianic, unpredictable yet clear	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
teucer, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
tiresias, and agōn scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
tiresias, challenges to	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
tutor, and orestes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 317