DRA 115 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Laius
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1. the cause of the plague is the killer of laius is still in the city of thebes. There is a plague on thebes because it harbors the murderer of. Pay the killers back - whoever is responsible here in. He is confused and cannot believe what he is hearing. He goes to find out who the murderer is: oedipus finds out that tiresias is saying that he is the murderer. Oedipus is being blamed for the murder of laius are the curse, the corruption of the land. " 81. He believes tiresias is lying and becomes angry: oedipus finds out about the prophecy. He goes to talk it out with his wife who then tells him of the prophecy. There is a prophecy that laius would die by the hands of his own son. It declared that doom would strike him down at the hands of a son, our son, to be born of our own flesh and blood. " .