Classical Greek
Oedipus the King · Οἰδίπους Τύραννος
Sophocles
Translated by Richard Jebb
Thebes is dying of plague, and its king sets out to find the man who killed Laius.
Start reading → Markdown.md ↓- Greek: ed. Francis Storr, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0011.tlg004, CC BY-SA 4.0).
- English: Richard Jebb, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0011.tlg004.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
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