Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back. This is let's talk about myths, baby.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast where I Live crazy person mythology
Speaker 1: connoisseur tell you about ancient Greek myths that are just
Speaker 1: too crazy to believe. This week it's specifically true is
Speaker 1: as you know, we're carrying on where we left off
Speaker 1: last week with the good old friend Oedipus. So let's
Speaker 1: just jump right in. This is episode nine Oedipus, mother
Speaker 1: lover and father Killer. Now where do we leave off
Speaker 1: last week? Well, our friend Oedipus was, Hey, let me
Speaker 1: just take a breath here. He was born to a
Speaker 1: man who learned that his child would kill him, so
Speaker 1: that man wanted to kill his child instead. But Oedipus
Speaker 1: was spared and raised by other parents and a whole
Speaker 1: other city. But then there were rumors, Oh, there were rumors.
Speaker 1: Opus wasn't sure his new parents were his real parents, which,
Speaker 1: of course they weren't, but Oedipus didn't know that. He
Speaker 1: went to the oracle to ask, and the oracle told
Speaker 1: him he would kill his dad and marry his mom.
Speaker 1: The horror. But instead of thinking, hey, maybe my mom
Speaker 1: and dad aren't actually my mom and dad, so maybe
Speaker 1: it's fine and I shouldn't overreact. Instead, he runs away.
Speaker 1: Little does he know, he runs towards the city where
Speaker 1: his actual mom and dad live, and what ho, he
Speaker 1: accidentally kills his dad on the road to thebes shucks,
Speaker 1: but he of course doesn't know. Then. As a reward
Speaker 1: for defeating a lady with wings and a lying body,
Speaker 1: he's given a kingship. And yes, he's also given his
Speaker 1: mother as his wife. So prophecy has come true and
Speaker 1: old Oedipus has no clue. Hey, look, I rhymed. So
Speaker 1: he's been king for a while, but there's plague ravaging
Speaker 1: his city. It sends his brother in law, slat uncle
Speaker 1: Creon to visit the oracle to find out what the
Speaker 1: hell is up, and the oracle says that it's because
Speaker 1: the killer of the king Oedipus hasn't been caught. It
Speaker 1: is called and blind old Tyreseus the prophet to answer
Speaker 1: his questions. At first, Tiresius tries to get away with
Speaker 1: not answering, but when Itipus accuses him of having something
Speaker 1: to do with killing king list Tyreseus loses a ship.
Speaker 1: Instead tells Itipus that it's actually he who is a killer,
Speaker 1: but of course, face with the truth, Opus refuses to
Speaker 1: believe him. Instead sas he's working with Ald Creon to
Speaker 1: undermine him because he's a paranoid, crazy person. And there
Speaker 1: we are, so now its is a accusing Creon of
Speaker 1: trying to get rid of him, and Creon arrives to
Speaker 1: face these random accusations that frankly came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Itipus demands Creon be executed off with his head. He
Speaker 1: might have said, but probably didn't. The townspeople slash the
Speaker 1: chorus when it comes to the play, which is where
Speaker 1: this comes from, rolls up just in time and convinces
Speaker 1: Oedipus that maybe he's reacting and he doesn't need to
Speaker 1: kill his brother in law slash uncle, because actually he
Speaker 1: has no proof of anything and is kind of losing
Speaker 1: his damn mind. This is when Jocasta, queen mother and
Speaker 1: not in the British way, rules up all what that
Speaker 1: f is going on? You're trying to kill my brother
Speaker 1: for something you totally made up? Not chill husband, slash
Speaker 1: actually my child. Of course, this story is written by men,
Speaker 1: so what she actually does is come in and comfort Edipus,
Speaker 1: who's being a real bitch, and she tells Edipus that
Speaker 1: he shouldn't trouble trouble himself with prophets. Don't be silly.
Speaker 1: Those oracles are never right. Nothing they ever say comes true,
Speaker 1: not at all. In fact, she says, my first husband
Speaker 1: and I saw guidance from an oracle after we had
Speaker 1: our first son. That oracle said that Elias would be
Speaker 1: killed by his son. But that never came true, did it. No, See,
Speaker 1: we got rid of our son because we're awful people.
Speaker 1: But so it was totally fine. And actually Lias was
Speaker 1: killed by bandits at a crossroads, So just don't worry,
Speaker 1: my love slash Sun, It's totally fine. This is when
Speaker 1: Oops finally finally takes a beat, and it's like, hmm,
Speaker 1: you know that sounds kind of familiar. I know, I've
Speaker 1: heard a hundred goddamn times that the king was killed
Speaker 1: on a road, and I know I totally remember killing
Speaker 1: some random myself on a road. But finally, finally he thinks, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe there's some connection, just maybe. So we asked Jocasta
Speaker 1: what Lias looked like. He's trying to be sly, like, oh,
Speaker 1: what an interesting story. That means nothing to me. By
Speaker 1: the way, and this is totally unrelated. Don't worry at all.
Speaker 1: It's not like I think maybe I killed him. No,
Speaker 1: it's very separately, very just. I'm curious, is all. By
Speaker 1: the way, what did old Lias look like? Jocasta tells him,
Speaker 1: and finally, finally, Oedipus things to himself. Oh shit, oh shit.
Speaker 1: So again, super casually, he calls for the one survivor
Speaker 1: that exists from when Lias was killed, because I guess
Speaker 1: the dude survived Itippus isn't the most efficient random road
Speaker 1: rage killer Itpus, of course, can only be so casual
Speaker 1: when he's asking these types of questions and Jocasta, Jocasta
Speaker 1: is no dummy. She gives it a pissa look that's like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you thinking? Husband? Who is actually
Speaker 1: my son? I don't know what that kind of look
Speaker 1: would look like, but you know, there we have it,
Speaker 1: she asks him, Son, I mean, hubby, excuse me? What's wrong?
Speaker 1: He tells her. Well, a long time ago, back in Corinth,
Speaker 1: when I was just a dumb kid and not a
Speaker 1: totally crazy, paranoid lunatic, a drunk guy at a party
Speaker 1: told me that I wasn't actually my parents son, I
Speaker 1: went to the oracle, you know, the one who's never
Speaker 1: right and we should never believe because man, they just
Speaker 1: and then never turn out to be right. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I went to the oracle, and that damn oracle
Speaker 1: didn't actually tell me who my parents were, or if
Speaker 1: the parents I believe are my parents, wherever my parents
Speaker 1: at all. The damn oracle just told me that one
Speaker 1: day I would kill my dad and marry my mom.
Speaker 1: This is gonna happen every week now. So when I
Speaker 1: heard this, I vowed to leave Corinth and never return.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ever be, ever, ever be in
Speaker 1: a position where that awful, awful prophecy could come true. No,
Speaker 1: that would be truly awful, just disgusting. So I ran far,
Speaker 1: far away, I like to believe. At this point, Jocasta
Speaker 1: gives him another look, and this time one that says,
Speaker 1: do you see the flaw in this logic? Because I
Speaker 1: just feel like someone has to see the flaw in
Speaker 1: this logic. If they're not your real parents, then running
Speaker 1: away from them does absolutely no good. Why would it
Speaker 1: do any good? Edipus continues telling a story. He says,
Speaker 1: when I was fleeing from Corinth that came upon a crossroads,
Speaker 1: you know, the same crossroads where King Liias was killed.
Speaker 1: And I was just minding my own damn business when
Speaker 1: this carriage came along and tried to run me off
Speaker 1: the road. So you know, I killed them, because what
Speaker 1: else can you really do in that kind of situation. Anyway,
Speaker 1: turns out one of these guys kind of resembles your
Speaker 1: description of Lias, which you know, his admit of a coincidence.
Speaker 1: But see, I've heard the Lias was killed by bandits,
Speaker 1: like with an S so multiple, so again it's probably
Speaker 1: just a coincidence. But see, that's why I want to
Speaker 1: have a little chat with the one guy that survived
Speaker 1: when Lias was killed. While Edipus and to castAR are
Speaker 1: waiting for this survivor dude to arrive in Thebes, a
Speaker 1: messenger arrives from Corinth. He tells Edipus that his father
Speaker 1: is to hide. The messenger is kind of surprised and
Speaker 1: weirded out by the fact that Edipus is super psyched
Speaker 1: by this news. He's bouncing around in happiness. The messenger
Speaker 1: must think he's a real dick. Itaps is of course
Speaker 1: psyched because in his mind where he's totally dumb and
Speaker 1: doesn't see the obvious fact in front of him. He's
Speaker 1: just been reassured that this prophecy was all whoie in
Speaker 1: the first place. Pew. He thinks, I'm totally in the clear.
Speaker 1: Now I can never kill my father because wouldn't you
Speaker 1: know that my father is already did and there's nothing
Speaker 1: to that rumor that started this whole damn thing. Then
Speaker 1: you know, maybe my father wasn't actually my father in
Speaker 1: the first place. No, that means nothing. Don't be silly.
Speaker 1: So edipus Itypus is voicing this happiness to the messenger,
Speaker 1: But then he thinks, oh, man, what if half of
Speaker 1: the prophecy can still come true? Random messenger, I've just
Speaker 1: met who brought me the tragic news that my father
Speaker 1: has died. What if I can still marry my mom
Speaker 1: and commit incests? He asked, with the block look on
Speaker 1: his face. Oh, don't worry at all. The messenger tells him,
Speaker 1: you're totally fine. Why, Oh, well, your mother and corinth
Speaker 1: wife of the guy that's just died, she was never
Speaker 1: really your mother at all? What how do I know? Well,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know that? Actually? While I'm a messenger now
Speaker 1: I actually used to be a shepherd. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: you think a shepherd is such a steady career. Why
Speaker 1: would I become a messenger? Will? I just really love messengering,
Speaker 1: it's my passion Itibus looks at him all the fuck,
Speaker 1: and the shepherd turned messenger continues, See, I used to
Speaker 1: be a shepherd, and actually I was given this random
Speaker 1: baby a long long time ago, and King Polybus and
Speaker 1: Queen Marrapay of Corinth they actually adopted that baby. Oh
Speaker 1: where did I get the baby? Well, I got it
Speaker 1: from another shepherd. Were baby traders by trade, and that
Speaker 1: shepherd got it from Why it's his household where he'd
Speaker 1: been told to get word of the child. Why do
Speaker 1: you ask Itapus is curious. Now he turns to the
Speaker 1: chorus his townspeople, and he asks them if they know
Speaker 1: this shepherd. What a coincidence? They say, See, it turns
Speaker 1: out that actually this shepherd that was given a child
Speaker 1: by the Lias household to get rid of, and that
Speaker 1: gave it to this other shepherd who is now a messenger,
Speaker 1: who gave it to the King and Queen of Karns.
Speaker 1: Well that shepherd is actually the dude is on his
Speaker 1: way to thebes. Right now, he just happens to be
Speaker 1: the lucky guy who survived the attack when Lias was killed.
Speaker 1: Just great, right, what a coincidence. Meanwhile, Jocasta has been
Speaker 1: watching this all go down. Her expression is basically that
Speaker 1: emoji with all the teeth showing, you know, the ah
Speaker 1: shit emoji. See. Jocasta knows what's up. She is thank
Speaker 1: god able to see what is right fucking in front
Speaker 1: of everyone, that d d the prophecy has come true,
Speaker 1: you dummy, because Polly was Mary paying Corn. We're not
Speaker 1: your parents, need to put. I like to hope that
Speaker 1: Jocasta understood a long time ago when it was obvious
Speaker 1: to the rest of us, But it's possible it only
Speaker 1: came to her when she learned that the shepherd turn
Speaker 1: messenger got the baby from a shepherd from her own household.
Speaker 1: She surely thought, well, there was only the one baby
Speaker 1: we got rid of. At this point, Jocasta realizes that
Speaker 1: it would be far better for everyone if Oedipus would
Speaker 1: just shut the funk up and stop asking all these
Speaker 1: pesky questions that will inevitably result in the very public
Speaker 1: realization that their mother and son, and that they're married,
Speaker 1: and you you you, and that oh bt w. Oedipus
Speaker 1: killed his own father, who was the king, and is
Speaker 1: therefore actually the cause of this awful plague that's been
Speaker 1: causing so much trouble in thebes. Just stop Oedipus for
Speaker 1: everyone's sake. Of course, Oedipus is a stubborn bastard, so
Speaker 1: he refuses to shut up. Jocasta wants none of this
Speaker 1: ship and she runs into the palace. Finally, this survivor
Speaker 1: shepherd arrives, and Itipus starts to question him. This shepherd
Speaker 1: is also smarter than Oedipus at this point, who isn't
Speaker 1: and he tries to refuse to answer the questions because
Speaker 1: he too knows what the result will be. He begs
Speaker 1: and pleads to just be let go without answering, but again,
Speaker 1: Edipus is a stubborn bastard. He presses him. Eventually, he's
Speaker 1: just like, dude, you gotta answer. I'm going to torture
Speaker 1: you and maybe kill you entirely because I'm awesome and
Speaker 1: a benevolent king. So the shepherd gives in. It's not
Speaker 1: worth his life. It's Oedipus is goddamn fault. That he
Speaker 1: won't shut up. So the shepherd says that, well, the
Speaker 1: baby that I gave away to the shepherd Shepherd turn
Speaker 1: messenger was actually lie as his son, and the reason
Speaker 1: I had him to give away was that Jocasta, because
Speaker 1: I remember, Liess didn't have the balls to do it himself.
Speaker 1: Jocasta gave the baby to be exposed on a mountaintop
Speaker 1: because of that best keep prophecy that the baby would
Speaker 1: grow up to kill King Blias. So finally, finally it's
Speaker 1: all out in the open. Honestly, it just seems so obvious.
Speaker 1: Be guys, the drama it isn't over yet. Its acts
Speaker 1: like an angry teenager. He curses himself and his fate
Speaker 1: before huffing and angrily walking into the palace. Picture him
Speaker 1: slamming his bedroom door shut. Now, the way the story
Speaker 1: is told is based around it being a play, so
Speaker 1: when the characters enter the palace, they're walking off stage.
Speaker 1: This is the stuff we don't see. So eventually a
Speaker 1: servant walks out of the palace shortly after Atopis went in.
Speaker 1: He basically tells the audience what happened inside or off stage.
Speaker 1: So off stage, Jocasta after she ran into the palace,
Speaker 1: went to her bedroom and hung herself, which I mean sad,
Speaker 1: but what can you do when you find out that
Speaker 1: the prophecy you tried so hard to keep from happening
Speaker 1: totally did happen. And not only that, but you've been
Speaker 1: married to your son for like fifteen years and you
Speaker 1: have four kids with him. That's a lot to take in.
Speaker 1: And shortly after when APUs ran inside himself, he went
Speaker 1: around yelling at his servants to bring him a sword
Speaker 1: because he apparently wanted to cut Jocasta's womb out because gross,
Speaker 1: And he's taking his anger out on her, which is
Speaker 1: pretty unreasonable. I mean, honestly, it's all his fault. I'll
Speaker 1: say it again because frankly, it's all I can think
Speaker 1: about when I hear this story. You thought your parents
Speaker 1: might not be your parents, So why did you run
Speaker 1: away when you learned you were destined to kill your
Speaker 1: father and marry your mother? Why didn't you just ask
Speaker 1: your parents the truth? In case staying in Corinth was
Speaker 1: actually the solution all along. But honestly, what have we
Speaker 1: learned if not that the oracles are always right? You guys,
Speaker 1: They're always right. Don't ever try to get away from
Speaker 1: it because they will always be right anyway. Fuck Edipus
Speaker 1: a little asshole, so he doesn't actually cut out Jocasta's
Speaker 1: womb bonus, but instead he runs around the house in
Speaker 1: a rage, just totally losing his ship, and he ends
Speaker 1: up finding Jocasta hanging in her in their bedroom. He
Speaker 1: gets super emotional because, I mean, gross or not, she
Speaker 1: has been his wife for a long time, and also
Speaker 1: now he knows that she's his mom too, so he's
Speaker 1: a hint attached. He takes her down and he mourns
Speaker 1: over her, but it doesn't take long before he removes
Speaker 1: the pins that we're keeping her dress together and probably
Speaker 1: stabs them into his own eyes because that's the proportionate
Speaker 1: reaction to all this crazy news. So now not only
Speaker 1: is he blind, but he's bleeding profusely from the eyes,
Speaker 1: So he's basically a terrifying ady monster who's still angry
Speaker 1: and crazy. He exits the palace and he tells Creon
Speaker 1: he wants to be exiled a sap. Edipus and Jocasta's
Speaker 1: daughters and Tigny and Ismani they come out and Edipus
Speaker 1: complains about how they've been born into a cursed family.
Speaker 1: He has two sons too, but I think the daughters
Speaker 1: kind of get the brunt of the bullshit shocker. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they'd come out, and he's just rambling and raving about
Speaker 1: how they they're cursed, and I mean, I figured he
Speaker 1: could have said some nice words to them, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe tried to comfort them because their mom just killed herself,
Speaker 1: or tried to explain how he's sorry that he's their
Speaker 1: brother and they're dead and that that really wasn't the plan.
Speaker 1: But no he doesn't. He's just bitching about his own mistakes,
Speaker 1: which I repeat are his and his alone. So Edi
Speaker 1: puts his ex out from thebes basically at his own request,
Speaker 1: but it probably would have happened even if he hadn't
Speaker 1: requested it, because you know, he killed the king and
Speaker 1: married and had kids with his own mom, and even
Speaker 1: in ancient Greece where consent his real relative that was
Speaker 1: frowned upon. I'll just pause here to say that this
Speaker 1: is where Sophocles is first play Edipus the King leaves Off,
Speaker 1: and the second in the theme and trilogy. This is
Speaker 1: where it begins. Itius at colonis Itus is exiled, but
Speaker 1: his daughter Antigony ends up going with him. I guess
Speaker 1: out of love for her father's slash brother, but kind
Speaker 1: of weird if you ask me. Anyway, Antagony heads off
Speaker 1: with him and they end up in the village of Colonist.
Speaker 1: They're pretty tired because of all the exile walking, and
Speaker 1: plus Itius is blind, so that would make things a
Speaker 1: little trickier, especially when you're on foot. So they sit
Speaker 1: down on a rock in Colonists, but they're immediately told
Speaker 1: they have to leave by this random villager that shows up.
Speaker 1: See they've sat on this rock, and that turns out
Speaker 1: it's a rock that's sacred ground to the runaways, the furies,
Speaker 1: the badass vengeance lady monsters. The villager says about this
Speaker 1: land quote, it may not be touched and none may
Speaker 1: live upon it. Dread goddesses own it, daughters of Earth
Speaker 1: and Darkness, which I think is an awesome way of
Speaker 1: describing them and of convincing someone to leave. I don't
Speaker 1: want to anger those dread goddesses. I only think of
Speaker 1: the dread pirate. Roberts Wesley Edips recognizes some significance in this.
Speaker 1: See I guess when he'd seen the oracle and found
Speaker 1: out that he would kill his father and Mary's mother.
Speaker 1: He also learned from Apollo via this oracle that he
Speaker 1: would die in a place sacred to the furies, and
Speaker 1: then he would subsequently be a blessing on the land
Speaker 1: where he's buried. It seems pretty coincidential if you ask me,
Speaker 1: but I'm no Sophocles. There it is again the chorus,
Speaker 1: a group of local men, this time because ancient Greece.
Speaker 1: They show up and they convince APIs to leave the
Speaker 1: holy fury ground. Why there is ground sakered sake, gred
Speaker 1: to crazy vengeance ladies is beyond me. Then they questioned
Speaker 1: him about himself, though, and that's a big mistake. They're
Speaker 1: not super psyched to learn that he's the son of Lias.
Speaker 1: See gossip spreads in ancient Greece, and they know what's up.
Speaker 1: They don't want to hurt him, but they want him
Speaker 1: far far away from their town, you know, because he's
Speaker 1: got quite their reputation. Edipus, though, who was too ashamed
Speaker 1: to stay in Thebes, thinks he has every right to
Speaker 1: live in Colonists. He tries to explain away all the
Speaker 1: gross and weird things associated with him, saying he's not
Speaker 1: responsible for killing his father because it was in self defense.
Speaker 1: I would say that this is not something proven by
Speaker 1: the evidence we have. I don't know that Oedipus would
Speaker 1: get off in a court these days road rage in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Anyway, he says, don't blame me, nothing is
Speaker 1: my fault because all I'm Edipus. Woe is me. He
Speaker 1: wants to see the king now too, convinced, just let
Speaker 1: him stay Now. Colonist is close to Athens, so it
Speaker 1: has the same king who at this time was Theseus,
Speaker 1: you remember, the one. He's awful and likes to rape
Speaker 1: and impregnant women before abandoning them when he left Ariadne
Speaker 1: on an island and married her sister. Anyway, this is
Speaker 1: apparently after all those crimes, and so people kind of
Speaker 1: love him. He's revered and he's seen as a great king.
Speaker 1: Fuk that. But what can you do? Meanwhile, is many
Speaker 1: oepuss other daughter rolls up from thebes. She's got news
Speaker 1: of some major drama going on. See what I didn't
Speaker 1: mention before because they weren't really important, And frankly I
Speaker 1: forgot is that Oedipus and Jocasta also had the two sons.
Speaker 1: They were very productive mother son Duo, one of their sons,
Speaker 1: at Accles, has seized the throne of Thebes from his
Speaker 1: elder brother Polynices, who is now gathering support from nearby
Speaker 1: regions to attack and take back the city. See. Both
Speaker 1: sons have heard from the oracle that the outcome of
Speaker 1: their war will depend on where Opus is buried, because
Speaker 1: that's how these things work. Again, oracles, guys, just leave
Speaker 1: him alone. Creon, learning this, plans to come take Opus,
Speaker 1: kill him, and bury him at the border of Thebes
Speaker 1: without any proper burial right burial rights so that this
Speaker 1: power the oracle is talking about won't help any land
Speaker 1: butt Thebes. I won't try to understand how this type
Speaker 1: of nonsense works, will trust Creon. Itpus is not psyched weird,
Speaker 1: and he curses his sons, which of course means nothing
Speaker 1: because there are nowhere near Thebes now Theseus rules up
Speaker 1: and is apparently all knowing because unlike the townspeople of colonists,
Speaker 1: he doesn't ask Edipus any questions and already has all
Speaker 1: the info about Oedipus's familial escapades. Itpus offers theseus the
Speaker 1: honor of having him buried there, which is weird because
Speaker 1: obviously he isn't dead yet, and we don't actually know
Speaker 1: that he is close to death or anything. At this point.
Speaker 1: He's just blind. But all this oracle talk has made
Speaker 1: clear that wherever Aedopus is buried is important in some
Speaker 1: weird and morbid way. THESEUS responds by making Oedipus an
Speaker 1: official citizen of Athens. You'll note there's no offer to
Speaker 1: make Antigony or is Many citizens of Athens, because super
Speaker 1: fun women weren't even citizens at all, not of anywhere.
Speaker 1: They had absolutely zero rights. THESEUS then heads off to
Speaker 1: sacrifice something to Poseidon, as you do. Then well, Ben
Speaker 1: Creon shows up from Thebes trying to get Oedipus to
Speaker 1: come back. See, they still want him dead and buried
Speaker 1: on their land, which is not weird at all. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Creon says that he's kidnapped is Many because I guess
Speaker 1: she's gone now, And then he goes and kidnaps and
Speaker 1: tag any right there, trying to blackmail Oedipus into coming
Speaker 1: back to Thebes. THESEUS rules back up, you know, post
Speaker 1: sacrificing some poor animal to Poseidon for god knows what reason,
Speaker 1: and he defends Edipus. He says something or other about
Speaker 1: Athens being a place of laws and justice, which I
Speaker 1: think is kind of ironic given Theseius his history, but
Speaker 1: what can you do. He continues to defend Itopus against Creon,
Speaker 1: and he gets antagony Is money back from Creon, maybe
Speaker 1: the first time he saves women and doesn't rape them,
Speaker 1: so Bonus. Creon continues to try to get Utopus to
Speaker 1: come back with him through various means of blackmail. Edipus
Speaker 1: continuously claims he's not morally culpable for all the shitty
Speaker 1: things he did, which again I call bullshit. On fine,
Speaker 1: you didn't know Jocasta was your mom, but I still
Speaker 1: don't understand why you needed to kill Lias on the road,
Speaker 1: and why you were such a dummy as to not
Speaker 1: ever put two and two together and realize, God damn it,
Speaker 1: maybe that was the king everyone was talking about out anyway,
Speaker 1: No pity for you, Oedipus, none at all. Also no
Speaker 1: to Theseus defends Oedipus, but he doesn't ever go so
Speaker 1: far as to allow Eutopis to actually touch him in
Speaker 1: any way because of Oedipus's pollution, which I do find
Speaker 1: a bit funny. Thesis then tells us that hey, there's
Speaker 1: actually a supplicant for you in the temple of Poseidon,
Speaker 1: and that this guy wants to talk to you. That
Speaker 1: was poor phrasing. There's a guy in the temple too, beside,
Speaker 1: and he wants to talk to Opus. It turns out
Speaker 1: it's his other son, the one who was ousted from Thebes, Polyneses.
Speaker 1: Opus is a little dick to him, and he tells
Speaker 1: him he doesn't want to talk. They loathe the sound
Speaker 1: of his voice. He's a drama king and take any
Speaker 1: Briefly convinces Opus not to be quite such a little
Speaker 1: dink and to talk to his son. Polynesis tells him
Speaker 1: that he's preparing to attack Thebes to try to get
Speaker 1: it back. Things have really gone to ship over there.
Speaker 1: You'd think people were a little angry and confused after
Speaker 1: finding out that their king killed their other king and
Speaker 1: that their new king is the son of a mother's
Speaker 1: son relationship. I mean, they're just not psyched over in Thebes.
Speaker 1: Its shocker is still a dick. He says that the
Speaker 1: two sons will kill each other in this upcoming battle
Speaker 1: and that he's psyched about it, cursing them and being
Speaker 1: just a real asshole, or like a shitty, jealous, angry
Speaker 1: half brother rather than a father. But there you go,
Speaker 1: both true and taking. He tries to sort things out.
Speaker 1: She's really the only voice of reason in the whole place.
Speaker 1: She tries to make her father chill, and she tries
Speaker 1: to keep her brother from attacking Thebes and potentially dying
Speaker 1: by his own brother's hand. But no luck. He can't
Speaker 1: be convinced. Paulines his heads back to Thebes to fright
Speaker 1: his brother and probably die. Then there's a banana's thunderstorm,
Speaker 1: just out of the blue. This is a play so
Speaker 1: picture a lot of banging metal for effect. Its is
Speaker 1: suddenly all knowing or something, because he interprets this standard
Speaker 1: weather such suation as a sign from Zeus that he
Speaker 1: will die soon. He calls him Theseus dramatically telling him
Speaker 1: that it's time for him to give the gift he
Speaker 1: promise to Athens, you know, the so called gift of
Speaker 1: having Edipus buried in your land, as if it's some
Speaker 1: crazy form of good luck and not just a dead
Speaker 1: body buried somewhere. Itepus is suddenly all righteous and he
Speaker 1: calls for Theseus and his daughters to follow him. He
Speaker 1: leads them all off and prepares himself for death, oils
Speaker 1: himself up and whatnot. Sounds weird, it's not totally crazy
Speaker 1: for the ancient Greeks, though he doesn't actually let and
Speaker 1: take any rays. Many see where he dies, though only
Speaker 1: theseus gets to see this so called sacred place. And
Speaker 1: there we go. Oedipus is finally dead. Jeez, drama over. Nope,
Speaker 1: not Actually, there's a war bruin in Thebes next week.
Speaker 1: Next week I'll dive into this time East Killis's play. See,
Speaker 1: Sophocles had a trilogy and and East has had a trilogy,
Speaker 1: both surrounding the events at Thebes, but while both covered
Speaker 1: Edipus the King and his non adventures and colonists, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry it was kind of boring whatever. East Scholis then
Speaker 1: writes about the Seven against Thebes that would be the
Speaker 1: conflict between us his sons, whereas sophocles final play, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, is called Antigony, and it's about the
Speaker 1: events after the Seven against Thebes. So next week I
Speaker 1: planned to cover both Seven against Thebes and Antigny. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 1: I'm happy to take suggestions, so feel free to reach
Speaker 1: out or just say hello. Also makes me happy. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned last week, this Eepus suggestion came in from
Speaker 1: a fan in Greece, that lucky duck. So you know
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