In this play, the protagonist blinds himself with pins from his wife's dress.
A character in this play claims "Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no profit to its possessor." This play opens with people placing olive branches with tufts of wool tied to them on an altar to combat the ongoing plague. The protagonist is happy when a messenger in this play brings news of the death of the king of Corinth, while another king was reportedly (*) killed by a group of bandits. Polybus and Merope raised the title figure after a shepherd left him on Mount Cithaeron. In this play, the protagonist blinds himself with pins from his wife's dress. For 10 points, Jocasta marries her son in what tragedy by Sophocles about the title Theban king?
A character in this play claims "Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no profit to its possessor."
Oedipus Rex [accept Oedipus the King, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oidipous Turannos] &lt;ES Literature&gt;