Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles

Oedipus Rex: Essential Passages by Character: Oedipus


Essential Passage 1: Lines 410-418

So tell me, when are you the wise seer? (410)
How is it that, when the singing hound was here,
you never said how the citizens might be freed?
Even though the riddle could not be solved by
the first man who met it, but required prophecy.
But you did not come forth with this, knowing some clue (415)
from birds or gods; instead I came along,
the idiot Oedipus! I stopped her,
working from intellect,...

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