https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2 Introduction to the Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex en-us 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC 2022-05-27 03:08:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/493338788/a12be0a79e9a1ce5310f4bf26b50fc1b/Screen_Shot_2020_04_06_at_2_08_34_PM.png mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453659 OEDIPUS: And so, as is right, you will see how I work with you, seeking vengeance for this land, as well as for the god. This polluting stain I will remove, not for some distant friend, but for myself. For whoever killed this man may soon enough desire to turn his hand in the same way against me, too, and kill me. Thus, in avenging Laius, I serve myself.                                    ]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453659 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453660 CREON: That’s what we guessed. But once Laius was dead we were in trouble, so no one sought revenge.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453660 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453661 CREON: He told us it was robbers who attacked them—not just a single man, a gang of them —  they came on with force and killed him.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453661 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453662 CREON: They all died—except for one who was afraid and ran away. There was only one thing he could inform us of with confidence about the things he saw.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453662 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453664 CREON: Here in Thebes, so said the god. What is sought is found, but what is overlooked escapes.                                

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453664 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453665 CREON: Laius was killed. And now the god is clear: those murderers, he tells us, must be punished, whoever they may be.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453665 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453668 OEDIPUS: I have heard that, but I never saw the man.]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453668 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453669 CREON: Before you came, my lord, to steer our ship of state, Laius ruled this land.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453669 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453672 CREON: Then let me report what I heard from the god. Lord Phoebus clearly orders us to drive away the polluting stain this land has harbored—which will not be healed if we keep nursing it.


]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453672 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453673 CREON: If you wish to hear the news in public, I’m prepared to speak. Or we could step inside.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453673 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453674 PRIEST: It seems the news he brings is good—if not, he would not wear that wreath around his head, a laurel thickly packed with berries.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453674 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453677 OEDIPUS: So I have sent away my brother-in-law, son of Menoeceus, Creon, to Pythian Apollo’s shrine, to learn from him what I might do or say to save our city. ]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453677 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453678 OEDIPUS: You must know I’ve been shedding many tears and, in my wandering thoughts, exploring many pathways. After a careful search I followed up the one thing I could find and acted on it.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453678 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453679 PRIEST: If you’re to rule as you are doing now, it’s better to be king in a land of men than in a desert. An empty ship or city wall is nothing if no men share your life together there.

]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453679 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453680 PRIEST: For you came here, to our Cadmeian city, and freed us from the tribute we were paying to that cruel singer—and yet you knew no more than we did and had not been taught. In their stories, the people testify how, with gods’ help, you gave us back our lives.]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453680 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453681 PRIEST: Disease infects fruit blossoms in our land, disease infects our herds of grazing cattle, makes women in labor lose their children. And deadly pestilence, that fiery god, swoops down to blast the city, emptying the House of Cadmus, and fills black Hades with groans and howls. ]]> 2022-03-18 19:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453681 mechenique0531 https://padlet.com/mechenique0531/lf5309xloi2crmj2/wish/2102453684 OEDIPUS: My children, latest generation born from Cadmus, why are you sitting here with wreathed sticks in supplication to me, while the city fills with incense, chants, and cries of pain?

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