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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · sin, guilt, and repentance · reticence broken by testimony · prophecy and causation · natural law and higher law · divine justice · debate over moral responsibility · athens religious authority
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · injustice endured (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
Oedipus rebuts Creon’s accusations of parricide and incest as unwitting outcomes of prophecy, then invokes truth, calls on the goddesses for aid, and argues that Athens respects proper divine rites.
touch of spite. So thou must work thy will; my cause is just But weak without allies; yet will I try, Old as I am, to answer deeds with deeds. OEDIPUS. O shameless railer, think’st thou this abuse Defames my grey hairs rather than thine own? Murder and incest, deeds of horror, all Thou blurtest forth against me, all I have borne, No willing sinner; so it pleased the gods Wrath haply with my sinful race of old, Since…