Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. That I will do, for I honor you, lady, above these men. Creon is the cause, and the plots he has laid against me.
Iocasta
  1. Come, tell me how the argument began.
Oedipus
  1. He says that I stand guilty of Laius’ blood.
Iocasta
  1. On his own knowledge or on hearsay from another?