Oedipus Rex by Nathan Burkhart https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la Made with fortitude en-us 2018-03-19 13:31:33 UTC 2018-04-12 12:55:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Quote 1 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/243481804 “I thought it wrong, my children, to hear the truth from others, messengers. Here I am myself—you all know me, the world knows my fame: I am Oedipus”
- Oedipus]]> 2018-03-19 13:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/243481804 Secondary Source 1 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/245446012 "The subsequent fate of Oedipus was dealt with at length by the tragedians" pg.163 Greek and roman mythology]]> 2018-03-23 13:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/245446012 Secondary Source 2 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/245449348 "who gave him the child? it came-the old man falters-it came from king Laius' house. Was it a slaves' child? The shepherd, weeping now, answers that it was the child of Laius-they said. But the queen was the one to ask: she would know best who the childs father was." pg 162 greek and roman mythology]]> 2018-03-23 13:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/245449348 Quote 2 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/246063585 "you are not one of the immortal gods, we know; Yet we have come to you to make our prayer." prologue pg. 205]]> 2018-03-26 13:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/246063585 Secondary Source 3 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248863955 "We have a darker vision here than in the epics. Fate again supersedes the gods, but here there don't even seem to be any gods, certainly not ones that we can appeal to for their intervention. Here it's just the human and his or her fate, which is stark, harsh, and frighteningly detached." Campbell, Joseph, with Bill Moyers. The Power of Myth. NY: Doubleday, 1988.
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Volume I. 6th ed. NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 1992.
]]> 2018-04-05 13:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248863955 Secondary Source 4 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248868704 "Before Sophocles wrote about Oedipus, his myth actually already existed. Sophocles merely dramatized a story that had already been part of the people’s existing mythology, but his version was one of the more popular."]]> 2018-04-05 13:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248868704 Secondary Source 5 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248869821 "The myth of Oedipus revolves around a man destined by the gods to suffer the most horrible fate. Oedipus' story takes place, for the most part, in the city of Thebes in northern Greece, where he was born. When he was still in his mother's womb, Oedipus' parents Laius and Jocasta asked the oracle of Apollo at Delphi about their unborn child. The oracle's reply was terrifying, that the boy would grow up to marry his mother and kill his father." https://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320AncLit/chapters/08soph.htm]]> 2018-04-05 13:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248869821 Quote 3 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248870746 I go, but first will tell thee why I came.
Thy frown I dread not, for thou canst not harm me. Hear then: this man whom thou hast sought to arrest
With threats and warrants this long while, the wretch Who murdered Laius--that man is here.
He passes for an alien in the land
But soon shall prove a Theban, native born. And yet his fortune brings him little joy; For blind of seeing, clad in beggar's weeds, For purple robes, and leaning on his staff, To a strange land he soon shall grope his way.
And of the children, inmates of his home, He shall be proved the brother and the sire, Of her who bare him son and husband both, Co-partner, and assassin of his sire. Go in and ponder this, and if thou find That I have missed the mark, henceforth declare
I have no wit nor skill in prophecy. (444-461) Teiresias]]> 2018-04-05 13:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248870746 Quote 4 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248872448 And thou shalt not be frustrate of thy wish. Now my imaginings have gone so far. Who has a higher claim that thou to hear My tale of dire adventures? Listen then. My sire was Polybus of Corinth, and My mother Merope, a Dorian; And I was held the foremost citizen, Till a strange thing befell me, strange indeed, Yet scarce deserving all the heat it stirred. A roisterer at some banquet, flown with wine, Shouted "Thou art not true son of thy sire." It irked me, but I stomached for the nonce The insult; on the morrow I sought out My mother and my sire and questioned them. They were indignant at the random slur Cast on my parentage and did their best to comfort me, but still the venomed barb Rankled, for still the scandal spread and grew.
(771-788) Oedipus]]> 2018-04-05 13:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248872448 Quote 5 18burkhnw https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248873284 OEDIPUS
Where are they? Where in the wide world to find the far, faint traces of a bygone crime?
CREON
In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind." (107-110)]]> 2018-04-05 13:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/18burkhnw/kjfvpc0y18la/wish/248873284