ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Laius, Iliad

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1C06
• Professor: Anne Savage

Document Summary

Oedipus opens the play because he is central to the action: setting is the royal house of thebes plea to the gods to help with plagues. Priest compares suffering city to a ship that cannot find its way oedipus is the captain. Effects of plague: stillborn children, women and men dying, crops won"t grow, livestock dying. Oedipus defeated the sphinx ( your country calls you savior now ) godlike to thebes irony because he is really the curse creating the plague. Priest oedipus, what do you know? : oedipus not one as sick as i. , efficient, proactive already sent creon to the oracle at delphi. Oedipus, jocasta, and creon (jocasta"s broither) rule thebes together. Note: creon calls it a band of thieves that killed laius: oedipus uses the singular and says, i"ll bring it all to light myself.