Oedipus · c. AD 50
Persons of the Play
Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1907)
Persons of the Play
OEDIPUS, King of Thebes; the son, as he supposed, of Polybus, king of Corinth, and Merope, his wife, but found to be the son of Laius and Jocasta
JOCASTA, wife and, as the play develops, found to be also the mother of Oedipus
CREON, Theban prince, brother of Jocasta
TIRESIAS, a celebrated prophet of Thebes, now old and blind
MANTO, his daughter
OLD MAN, sent from Corinth to announce to Oedipus the death of Polybus
PHORBAS, head-shepherd of the royal flocks of Thebes
MESSENGER, who announces the self-inflicted blindness of Oedipus and the suicide of Jocasta
CHORUS of Theban elders
The scene is laid before the royal palace of Thebes; the play opens in the early morning of the day within which the tragedy is consummated.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Oedipus, Persons of the Play. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/oedipus-seneca-miller/0/.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Oedipus, Persons of the Play. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/oedipus-seneca-miller/0/.