Creon Monologue from Oedipus at Colonus

From Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

male · defiant · 56 sec

Friends, countrymen, I learn King Oedipus Hath laid against me a most grievous charge, And come to you protesting. If he deems That I have harmed or injured him in aught By word or deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot, but blasts my name, If by the general voice I am denounced False to the State and false by you my friends. (CHORUS: This taunt, it well may be, was blurted out In petulance, not spoken advisedly.) Did any dare pretend that it was I Prompted the seer to utter a forged charge? (CHORUS: Such things were said; with what intent I know not.) Were not his wits and vision all astray When upon me he fixed this monstrous charge?

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