Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. Who is he and what news does he have for me?
Iocasta
  1. He comes from Corinth to tell you that your father Polybus lives no longer, but has perished.
Oedipus
  1. How, stranger? Let me have it from your own mouth.
Messenger
  1. If I must first make these tidings plain, know indeed that he is dead and gone.