Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Oedipus Tyrannus
- The play starts with people moaning about problems to Oedipus (miasma)
- Oedipus has sent his brother-in-law/uncle (ew) to consult the [crazy women who can tell the future]
- CREON!!! returns and says that they must either kill or exile the murderer of Laius (the previous king) to be rid of the miasma
- Oedipus says that he will only exile the murderer
- Tiresias enters
- Oedipus demands he tells him all he knows
- Tiresias claims he should not, for Oedipus' sake
- Oedipus demands him to tell him what he knows once again
- Tiresias says that Oedipus was the murderer of Laius
- Oedipus says he is lying and plotting against him with Creon
- Tiresias leaves
- Tiresias is a crazy blind morphodite fortune teller
- Creon returns
- He has heard the accusations of Oedipus
- Oedipus confirms that these accusations and true and that Creon is a traitor
- Creon claims that he would rather keep his power while doing no work than have a little more power and a huge amount of work
- Oedipus tells him to leave immediately
- Oedipus' wife enters and stops the fight
- Creon leaves
- Oedipus talks with his wife about the murder
- He discovers that he may have been the murderer
- A slave arrives informing Oedipus that his father has died
- Oedipus does not want to take his father's
throne in fear of marrying his mother
- The slave tells him that he is not their son
- Oedipus demands to know who his parents were
- The slave tells him a different slave gave Oedipus to him
- He has this slave brought to him
- The slave tells him that his father is the king he killed...
- ...and his mother is the woman he married!
- Oedipus looks for his mother
- He finds that she has hung herself
- Oedipus gouges his eyes out
- He then leaves forever