Oedipus Monologue from Oedipus at Colonus

From Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

male · anguished · 48 sec

By treachery, or by sickness visited? (MESSENGER: One touch will send an old man to his rest.) So of some malady he died, poor man. (MESSENGER: Yes, having measured the full span of years.) Out on it, lady! why should one regard The Pythian hearth or birds that scream i’ the air? Did they not point at me as doomed to slay My father? but he’s dead and in his grave And here am I who ne’er unsheathed a sword; Unless the longing for his absent son Killed him and so I slew him in a sense. But, as they stand, the oracles are dead— Dust, ashes, nothing, dead as Polybus.

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