Oedipus Paragraph 2
Andrew Savage /
- Created on 2024-10-25 19:21:35
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Interim Sphinx Typhonis in Boeotiam est missa , quae agros Thebanorum vexabat ; ea regi Creonti simultatem constituit , si carmen , quod posuisset , aliquis interpretatus esset , se inde abire , si autem datum carmen non solvisset , eum se consumpturam dixit neque aliter de finibus excessuram . Rex re audita per Graeciam edixit , qui Sphingae carmen solvisset , regnum se et Iocasten sororem ei in coniugium daturum promisit . Cum plures regni cupidine venissent et a Sphinge essent consumpti , Oedipus Laii filius venit et carmen est interpretatus ; illa se praecipitavit . Oedipus regnum paternum et Iocasten matrem inscius accepit uxorem , ex qua procreavit Eteoclen et Polynicen , Antigonam et Ismenen .
Meanwhile
,
the
Sphinx
,
daughter
of
Typhon
,
has
been
sent
into
Boetia
,
who
was
terrorizing
the
fields
of
the
Thebans
.
She
established
a
contest
for
Creon
the
king
,
if
anyone
solves
the
riddle
,
which
she
had
put
,
that
she
would
leave
from
there
.
If
,
however
,
he
did
not
solve
the
riddle
having
been
given
,
she
said
that
she
will
eat
him
,
and
she
would
not
otherwise
leave
from
the
borders
.
With
the
thing
having
been
heard
,
the
king
proclaimed
throughout
Greece
that
,
whoever
solved
the
riddle
of
the
Sphinx
,
he
promised
that
he
would
give
the
kingdom
and
his
sister
Jocasta
to
him
.
When
many
had
come
because
of
a
desire
for
the
kingdom
and
had
been
eaten
by
the
Sphinx
,
Oedipus
,
the
son
of
Laius
,
came
and
solved
the
riddle
.
She
threw
herself
[
off
a
cliff
]
.
Oedipus
unknowingly
accepted
his
father
'
s
kingdom
and
his
mother
Jocasta
as
his
wife
,
from
whom
he
gave
birth
to
Etocles
and
Polynices
,
Antigone
and
Ismene
.