That Oedipus must end the pestilence in Thebes before it ends all life in the city, that the solution demands the identification and punishment of the guilty in Laius' murder and that Oedipus appears to be the prime suspect is a summary of the first part of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).
Specifically, Theban King Oedipus must end the pestilence before it leaves him with no city over which to rule. He therefore does what any well-trained royal does in ancient Greece: he seeks to understand divine will as expressed by the Apolline oracle and Teiresias the blind prophet. The oracle charges him with identifying and punishing the guilty in the unsolved murder of his royal predecessor, King Laius. Teiresias calls him the very murderer whose execution or exile all gods and Thebans demand. After learning that Laius' crime scene and that of a murder committed by him against a similar person at about the same time, Oedipus believes that Teiresias may be right. He therefore begins to look into his own past.
In the first part of Oedipus Rex, a plague is rampaging in the City of Thebes. Oedipus sends for an oracle. The oracle says the plague will end when the murder of the former King is killed or sent away. A search is on for the murderer. Oedipus himself is accused of the murder. As the plot unfolds, Oedipus begins to worry that he may actually be the murderer. Oedipus later learns that he is the son of the former King. He discovers that he has killed his father and married his mother (the queen).
"Rex" is Latin for "King". Oedipus Rex means "Oedipus the King".
oedipus is Laiu's murderer
First of all, there is no external conflict in Oedipus Rex, but the internal conflict is with Oedipus' discovery of his true identity and how he reacts to it.
Thebes is the setting of Oedipus Rex because it is the place where the story begins.
Oedipus Rex is part of a four part collection of plays, three tradgedies and a comedy. We do not have the Comedy but the three tradgedies are "Oedipus Rex", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone".
In the first part of Oedipus Rex, a plague is rampaging in the City of Thebes. Oedipus sends for an oracle. The oracle says the plague will end when the murder of the former King is killed or sent away. A search is on for the murderer. Oedipus himself is accused of the murder. As the plot unfolds, Oedipus begins to worry that he may actually be the murderer. Oedipus later learns that he is the son of the former King. He discovers that he has killed his father and married his mother (the queen).
"Rex" is Latin for "King". Oedipus Rex means "Oedipus the King".
oedipus learns his identity from the shepard
oedipus is Laiu's murderer
First of all, there is no external conflict in Oedipus Rex, but the internal conflict is with Oedipus' discovery of his true identity and how he reacts to it.
Thebes is the setting of Oedipus Rex because it is the place where the story begins.
Oedipus is Laius's murderer.
'King' is an English equivalent of 'Rex' in the play 'Oedipus Rex'.
the Chorus leader
Apollo the sun god is the Delian Healer. Such is his description by the chorus. The reference is in the very first ode of 'Oedipus Rex'.
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