Role of seers or prophets in Sophocles' tragedies.

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November 9, 2013

 

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154) In the play King Oedipus, a major prophet is made that shapes the entire outcome of events. Laius was warned by an oracle that his own son would kill him and that he would marry his mother, Jocasta. Determined to reverse this fate, Laius bound his newborn son's feet and sent a shepherd away with him with instructions to leave the child to die on the mountain of Cithaeron...
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This shows how much effect the prophets really have over the characters. However, Oedipus did not die. The shepherd who was supposed to place Oedipus on the mountain felt sympathy and he passed the child into the hands of a Shepard who then passed Oedipus on to the shepherd in Corinth so that the child may be raised as a prince of Corinth...
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