Think Through-Oedipus

Pause & Reflect- Oedipus

1. Oedipus will be an excellent leader, he's very wise, he was able to figure out the riddle and free the people from the Sphinx.
2. The king's death was the cause of the Plague in Thebes.
3. Generations strewn on the ground unburied unwept, the dead spreading death. Wails for mercy rise clashing with ours sobs our cries of mourning.
4. Let that man drag out his life in agony, step by painful step- I curse myself as well.... if by any chance he proves to be an inmate of our house, here at my heart, with my full knowledge, may the curse I just called strike down on him strike me.
5. Tiresias names Oedipus the murder of Laius.
6. Tiresias plotted to kill him and still his crown and power thats, why Oedipus turned against Tiresias.
7. Oedipus becomes fearful because he had an en counter at that plac and killled a man, so he feared that he was the killer of Laius.
8. Oedipus learned that Polybus(his adopted father) died.
9. He was found by a herdsman pinned by his ankles to hedge of a mountain, he took him to another city and was adpoted by Polybus and his wife.
10. That he was the little baby the sheperd saved.
11. He takes a pin from his wife(mother) dress and stabbed his eyes out.