Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. I will tell you what I heard from the god. Phoebus our lord clearly commands us to drive out the defilement which he said was harbored in this land, and not to nourish it so that it cannot be healed.
Oedipus
  1. With what sort of purification? What is the manner of the misfortune?
Creon
  1. By banishing the man, or by paying back bloodshed with bloodshed, since it is this blood which brings the tempest on our city.
Oedipus
  1. And who is the man whose fate he thus reveals?