Oedipus the King

by Sophocles · c. 429 BCE

Francis Storr's translation, 1912. 1 part, about 12,799 words, 58 minutes of reading. Source edition.

Oedipus the King2 passages · 12,799 words

Passages the guide marks

Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.
Closing lines, spoken by the chorus · Read it in Oedipus the King
Tiresias tells Oedipus that his wisdom is dreadful when it brings its possessor no profit, and refuses at first to say what he knows.
First episode, the Tiresias scene
Jocasta dismisses prophecy by telling Oedipus that nobody possesses the art of divination, and that chance governs everything.
Second episode
Oedipus, learning the truth from the herdsman, cries out that everything has come clear, and asks for the light of day to be taken from him.
Third episode, before the final chorus · Read it in Oedipus the King

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Francis Storr. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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