![]() As he fared northward he met and slew an old man who imperiously disputed the narrow way with him. Years later a reputed son of Polybus, Oedipus by name, fearing an oracle which doomed him to slay his father and wed his mother, fled from Corinth, that so he might escape this dreadful fate. But the tender-hearted rustic gave the babe instead to a wandering herdsman of Polybus, the king of Corinth. When, therefore, a son was born to him, he gave the infant to his chief shepherd to expose on Mount Cithaeron. ARGUMENTĪn oracle once came to Laïus, king of Thebes, that he should perish by his own son’s hands. ![]() THE SCENE is laid before the royal palace of Thebes the play opens in the early morning of the day within which the tragedy is consummated. MESSENGER, who announces the self-inflicted blindness of Oedipus and the suicide of Jocasta. PHORBAS, shepherd in charge of the royal flocks of Thebes. OLD MAN, sent from Corinth to announce to Oedipus the death of Polybus. TIRESIAS, the prophet of Thebes, now old and blind. JOCASTA, wife of Oedipus, found to be also his mother.ĬREON, a Theban prince, brother of Jocasta. ![]() ![]() OEDIPUS, king of Thebes the son, as he supposed, of Polybus, king of Corinth, and Merope his wife, but found to be the son of Laïus and Jocasta. TROADES OEDIPUS, TRANSLATED BY FRANK JUSTUS MILLER DRAMATIS PERSONAE ![]()
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