HKB
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Often appears with: the fear of death · self-condemnation · revelation of birth · laius child survival · fate, destiny, and necessity · crime and punishment
Usually: dialogue (1) · confronting death (1) · the fall of the great (1) · indignation (1) · irony (1)
Oedipus confronts the herdsman and recognizes him as one tied to his past; the herdsman confirms he had handed over a child from Laius’s house, leading Oedipus to realize he is the cursed parricide and incest victim.
the changing moons My brethren, and with them I wax and wane. Thus sprung why should I fear to trace my birth? Nothing can make me other than I am. CHORUS. (Str.) If my soul prophetic err not, if my wisdom aught avail, Thee, Cithaeron, I shall hail, As the nurse and foster-mother of our Oedipus shall greet Ere tomorrow’s full moon rises, and exalt thee as is meet. Dance and song shall hymn thy praises, lov…