ISBN: 9781459063013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... To anchor,--where? And other store of ill Thou seest not, that shall show thee as thou art, Merged with thy children in one horror of birth. Then slander noble Creon, and revile My sacred utterance! No life on earth More wretchedly shall be crushed out, than thine. If our readers are a little perplexed with surprise that, after intimations, first so explicit, and then, though mys terious, so significant, from Teiresias, CEdipus should not recognize himself for the one pointed out as murderer of Laius, why, they will, in their minds, be criticising Sophocles exactly as he has often been criticised before. But remember, though CEdipus was indeed conscious with himself of having once killed a man, the circumstances of that killing were such as not at all to identify in his thought the victim with King Laius, or in truth with any king. The dark allusions of Teiresias to crime on CEdipus''s part committed against father and mother, would naturally all be understood by the king to respect his Corinthian parents, whom he had forsaken for the very purpose of not committing against them the crimes foretold. Besides, CEdipus, being in a towering passion when Teiresias let slip the most explicit of his accusations, was then not mentally qualified to get the full force of the language that he heard. At any rate, represented as still unaware of being himself the murderer sought, CEdipus burst out in a fierce Begone! to Teiresias. Teiresias, going, turns and aims this parting Parthian arrow at the king: Tei. I go, but I will speak. Why should I fear Thy frown? Thou ne''er canst ruin me. The word Wherefore I came, is this. The man you seek With threatening proclamation of the guilt Of Laius''s blood, that man is here to-day. An alien sojourner supposed from far, But by and... William Cleaver Wilkinson, Books, History, College Greek course in English Books>History, General Books LLC<