Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.

  1. Perish the man, whoever he was, who freed me in the past years from the cruel shackle on my feet—a thankless deed! Had I died then,
  2. I would not have been so sore a grief to my friends and to my own soul.
Chorus
  1. I too would have had it thus.
Oedipus
  1. In this way I would not have come to shed my father’s blood, or been known among men as the husband of the woman from whom I was born.