Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. If I do not speak the truth, I am content to die.
Iocasta
  1. Handmaid, away with all speed, and tell this to your master! Oracles of the gods, where do you stand now? It is this man that Oedipus long feared he would slay. And now this man has died in the course of destiny, not by his hand.
Enter Oedipus.
Oedipus
  1. Iocasta, dearest wife, why have you summoned me forth from these doors?
Iocasta
  1. Hear this man, and judge, as you listen, what the awful oracles have come to.