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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 429-444


nanAre these taunts to be endured from him?


nanBe gone, to your ruin; be gone this instant! Will you not turn your back and leave this house? Teiresia


nanBe gone, to your ruin; be gone this instant! Will you not turn your back and leave this house? Teiresia


nanI would not have come if you had not called me. Oedipu


nanI did not know you would speak foolishly, for otherwise it would have been a long time before I summoned you to my home. Teiresia


nanI did not know you would speak foolishly, for otherwise it would have been a long time before I summoned you to my home. Teiresia


nanI was born like this—as you think, a fool, but in the opinion of the parents who bore you, quite sane. Oedipu


nanI was born like this—as you think, a fool, but in the opinion of the parents who bore you, quite sane. Oedipu


nanWhat parents? Wait. What man is my father? Teiresia


nanThis day will reveal your birth and bring your ruin. Oedipu


nanWhat riddles, what dark words you always say. Teiresia


nanWith what a hymeneal thou wast borne Home, but to no fair haven, on the gale! Aye, and a flood of ills thou guessest not Shall set thyself and children in one line. Flout then both Creon and my words, for none Of mortals shall be striken worse than thou. OIDIPUS: Must I endure this fellow's insolence? A murrain on thee! Get thee hence! Begone Avaunt! and never cross my threshold more. TEIRESIAS: I ne'er had come hadst thou not bidden me. OIDIPUS: I know not thou wouldst utter folly, else Long hadst thou waited to be summoned here. TEIRESIAS: Such am I — as it seems to thee a fool, But to the parents who begat thee, wise. OIDIPUS: What sayest thou — "parents"? Who begat me, speak? TEIRESIAS: This day shall be thy birth-day, and thy grave. OIDIPUS: Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words. TEIRESIAS: In reading riddles who so skilled as thou? OIDIPUS: Twit me with that wherein my greatness lies. TEIRESIAS: And yet this very greatness proved thy bane.


nanAre you not the best at unravelling mysteries? Oedipu


nanReproach me in what you will find me to be great. Teiresia


nanYet it was just that fortune that undid you. Oedipu


nanBut if it saved this city I care not. Teiresia


nanI will take my leave. You, boy, lead me. Oedipu


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

5 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 1.68-1.69, 1.106, 1.122 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.68. /in hope that he may accept the savour of lambs and unblemished goats, and be willing to ward off the pestilence from us. 1.69. /in hope that he may accept the savour of lambs and unblemished goats, and be willing to ward off the pestilence from us. When he had thus spoken he sat down, and among them arose Calchas son of Thestor, far the best of bird-diviners, who knew the things that were, and that were to be, and that had been before 1.106. / Prophet of evil, never yet have you spoken to me a pleasant thing; ever is evil dear to your heart to prophesy, but a word of good you have never yet spoken, nor brought to pass. And now among the Danaans you claim in prophecy that for this reason the god who strikes from afar brings woes upon them 1.122. /In answer to him spoke swift-footed brilliant Achilles:Most glorious son of Atreus, most covetous of all, how shall the great-hearted Achaeans give you a prize? We know nothing of a hoard of wealth in common store, but whatever we took by pillage from the cities has been apportioned
2. Sophocles, Antigone, 1001-1090, 631-765, 988-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 227-229, 236-243, 273, 284-289, 298-304, 307, 310, 312-313, 316-317, 320-321, 324-403, 405, 408-425, 430-444, 448-462, 532-547, 709, 711-712, 863-872, 946, 964-966, 223 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Epigraphy, Lscg, 154

5. Epigraphy, Lss, 115



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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), 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
calchas, as the voice of the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
creon, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
curse (ara), self-curse Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
dialogue, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
episodes, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
eudaimonia, rooted in thinking in sophocles Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
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
hagneia, as a divine law Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
humans, and the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
hymn, to reverent purity Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
incest Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
interpreters, of the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
jocasta (epicaste), and tiresias Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
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 Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
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), 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
prayer, chorus in oedipus tyrannus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
prodicus Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 162
purity, of the leader Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
sacred regulations (inscriptional)' Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
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
segal, c. p. Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 162
socrates Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
sophocles Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
teiresias Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 181
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