This play opens with various priests and suppliants gathered and holding "branches of olive filleted with wool."At one point in this play a shepherd reveals that he had found another character in this play on Mount Cithaeron before taking him to Polybus and Merope of Corinth.
This play opens with various priests and suppliants gathered and holding "branches of olive filleted with wool."At one point in this play a shepherd reveals that he had found another character in this play on Mount Cithaeron before taking him to Polybus and Merope of Corinth. Later in this play, the protagonist uses the pins that had held together his wife's dress to gouge out his own eyes, upon realizing he had killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. For 10 points, name this play about the titular king of Thebes, which appears in a trilogy by Sophocles.
This play opens with various priests and suppliants gathered and holding "branches of olive filleted with wool."At one point in this play a shepherd reveals that he had found another character in this play on Mount Cithaeron before taking him to Polybus and Merope of Corinth.
{Oedipus Rex} [or {Oedipus the King}]