In this work, both the fourth stasimon and the final remark of the chorus contain the contemporary notion that no man is happy until he is dead. Near the end, a messenger from Corinth comes to announce that Polybus and Merope have died, so the title character is now that city's king. Earlier, the title character had cursed Tiresias, but his prophecy was proven true when an old shepherd revealed th
In this work, both the fourth stasimon and the final remark of the chorus contain the contemporary notion that no man is happy until he is dead. Near the end, a messenger from Corinth comes to announce that Polybus and Merope have died, so the title character is now that city's king. Earlier, the title character had cursed Tiresias, but his prophecy was proven true when an old shepherd revealed that the title character is the son of Laius and Jocasta. For ten points, identify the Sophocles tragedy in which the title character discovers that he killed his father and married his mother.
In this work, both the fourth stasimon and the final remark of the chorus contain the contemporary notion that no man is happy until he is dead.
{Oedipus Tyranno}{s} (or {Oedipus Rex} or {Oedipus the King})