Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. But fear not that you will wed your mother. Many men before now have slept with their mothers in dreams. But he to whom these things are as though nothing bears his life most easily.
Oedipus
  1. All these words of yours would have been well said,
  2. were my mother not alive. But as it is, since she lives, I must necessarily fear, though you do speak well.
Iocasta
  1. Your father’s death is a great sign for us to take cheer.