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Oedipus is a Latin verse tragedy written by the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger. It is based on the Greek legend of Oedipus and his marriage to his mother Jocasta.
An oracle once came to Laius, king of Thebes, that he should perish by his own son's hands. When, therefore, a son was born to him, he gave the infant to his chief of shepherds to expose on Mount Cithaeron. But the tender-hearted rustic gave the babe instead to a wandering herdsman of Polybus, the king of Corinth.
Years later, a reputed son of Polybus, Oedipus by name, fearing an oracle which doomed him to slay his father and wed his mother, fled from Corinth, that so he might escape this dreadful fate. As he fared northward, he met and slew an old man who imperiously disputed the narrow way with him. Upon arriving at the Theban land, he read the riddle of the Sphinx, and so destroyed that monster which Juno had sent to harass the land which she hated; and for this service, Oedipus was made the husband of Jocasta, the widowed queen of Laius (who had recently been slain upon the road), and set upon the vacant throne.
Now other years have passed, and sons and daughters have been born to the royal pair. But now a dreadful pestilence afflicts the state. Oedipus has sent Creon to consult the oracle, to learn the cause and seek the means of deliverance from the scourge. And while he waits his messenger's return, 15the murky dawn still finds him grieving for his kingdom's wretched plight.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone and the translator)
Source text (please read only from this text!):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57999/57999-h/57999-h.htm#OEDIPUS
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- Project Code: v0Bian2X
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_(Seneca)
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 31
- Does the project have an introduction or preface: Yes
- Original publication date (if known): 1907
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Genres for the project: Plays/Drama/Tragedy
Keywords that describe the book: Drama, Tragedy, Greek, Seneca, Oedipus
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