Later a messenger tells the title character that he was found in a forested valley of Cithaeron and brought to Polybus to be raised.
This play opens with citizens bringing branches wrapped in wool to offer as supplication at two altars of Pallas. Later a messenger tells the title character that he was found in a forested valley of Cithaeron and brought to Polybus to be raised. A shepherd tells the title character that he released him from pins that pierced his ankles, explaining his name. At the end of this play the title character's wife Jocasta has hanged herself and he has put out his own eyes. FTP this describes what first play of the Theban Cycle by Sophocles?
This play opens with citizens bringing branches wrapped in wool to offer as supplication at two altars of Pallas.
Oedipus Rex