Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. Now I am forsaken by the gods, son of a defiled mother, successor to the bed of the man who gave me my own wretched being:
  2. if there is a woe surpassing all woes, it has become Oedipus’ lot.
Chorus
  1. I cannot agree that you have counseled well: you would have been better dead than living and blind.
Oedipus
  1. Do not tell me that things have not been best done in this way: