The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles & Robert Fagles

Author:Sophocles & Robert Fagles [Fagles, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Play, Ancient Greece, Drama, Literary Criticism, Ancient & Classical, Classics
ISBN: 9781101042694
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1984-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

MESSENGER :

And you’d be covered with guilt, from both your parents.

OEDIPUS:

That’s right, old man, that fear is always with me.

MESSENGER:

Don’t you know? You’ve really nothing to fear.

OEDIPUS: .

But why? If I’m their son—Merope, Polybus?

MESSENGER:

Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood.

OEDIPUS:

What are you saying—Po!ybus was not my father?

MESSENGER:

No more than I am. He and I are equals.

OEDIPUS:

My father—

how can my father equal nothing? You’re nothing to me!

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