 Oedipus's two daughters (and half-sisters), Antigone and Ismene, are sent out, and Oedipus laments their having been born to such a cursed family.He asks Creon to watch over them and Creon agrees, before sending Oedipus back into the palace.On an empty stage the chorus repeats the common Greek maxim, that no man should be considered fortunate until he is dead.