CLCV 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Laius, Odysseus, Sophocles
15 Nov 2017
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Laius is warned not to have children, because he is cursed for raping a prince called. Chrysippus: there is a prophecy for him, 1. Do not have a son because he will kill you: 2. You will die childless: laius tried to get around the prophecy by killing oedipus. In odysseus" story, whoever marries penelope will become king. Important detail in the name of the play: oedipus rex (latin for king), but in greek it is. Late(cid:396) o(cid:374) : oedipus has a family with jocasta: eteocles, polyneices, antigone, and ismene, creon is jocasta"s brother. The events of the play: the city is under a curse or a plague. Jocasta tries to console oedipus by telling him not to listen to teiresias. She says that she does(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374) o(cid:396)a(cid:272)les: because her son was killed as a baby and her husband was killed by robbers, oedipus picks up on this detail.
