The Curse Of Apollo Upon The City Of Thebes

Thebes from the curse, caused his own undoing (Fergusson 388). This moment of realization for

Prior to Oedipus’s birth, it was prophesied that Oedipus would end up killing his father and marrying his mother. Due to this, Oedipus was abandoned at birth and raised by the King and Queen of Corinth. As he eventually discovered, via a drunken man, that he was not a birth son of theirs, he sought the guidance of the Delphi Oracle to confirm this discovery. In frustration of this prophecy manifesting itself, Oedipus ends up killing an old man, who happened to be his father, King Laius. The death of his father led to the imposition of a plague in Thebes delivered by Apollo, and in attempts to follow proper leadership, Oedipus is determined to apprehend the murderer and remove the plague from Thebes. After Teiresias blamed Oedipus for the

As a precursor to the story, King Laius of Thebes was told that he would one day die at the hands of his son. In an attempt to ensure this fate would not come true, Laius ordered that his and his wife, Jocasta’s firstborn child’s feet be pinned together and the child be abandoned on a mountain. Behind Laius’ back, the child was saved and brought to Polybus, king of Corinth, whose childless wife, Merope, took the child as her own, naming him Oedipus. Another fate enters into the story when the Delphic oracle tells Oedipus that he would one day kill his father and marry his mother. Believing the oracle was referring to Polybus and Merope, Oedipus vowed to never to return to Crointh and instead traveled to Thebes.

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Growing up with parents and relatives who lived through the Vietnam War, I have many opportunities to hear stories about their lives during that period. Most of the stories told by my parents were about how, as young children, they learned to take care of themselves while their parents were working away from home or fighting in the war. Due to some circumstances, they sometimes had to move to another town. And Facebook did not exist at the time. They had no way to stay in touch with old friends, and their only option was to make new friends each time. Many of us who grew up in a peaceful environment are used to being surrounded by the same group of people all the time. Attending a college away from home after high school may be the very first time they are separated from their friends and families. I am an example. Living on campus meant I had to be away from my family and most of my friends while adapting to a new residence, a new community, and meeting new people. From this experience, I have learned to value my background, my friends, and my family even more than I did before.

Then a terrible plague descended on the land, and the oracle proclaimed that Laius's murderer must be punished. After he made king, Oedipus takes it upon himself to rid Thebes of the plague by finding Laius' murder.(p311/ln.104) Oedipus soon discovered that he had unknowingly killed his father. In grief and despair at her incestuous life, Jocasta killed herself, and when Oedipus realized that she was dead and that their children were accursed, he put out his eyes and relinquished the throne. He lived in Thebes for

on as he works through the mystery of his birth. In the Oedipus myth, marriage to Jocasta was the prize for ridding Thebes of the Sphinx. Thus, Oedipus's intelligence, "a trait that brings Oedipus closer to the gods" (Bloom, 54), is what causes him to commit the most heinous of all possible sins - murdering his father, and marrying his mother. In killing the Sphinx, Oedipus is the city's savior, but in killing Laius, he is its scourge, the cause of the blight that has struck the city at the

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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.Greek myth is comprised of many Gods and Goddesses and the stories of how they came to be and of their life stories. And this is the story of the God apollo One God that caught my eye was Apollo, was associated with many aspects of life in the time of the Greek gods. Apollo’s father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus, though married to Hera, had some problems with fidelity. He impregnated Leto, the daughter of a Titan.When he was four days old, he asked Hephaestus to make him silver bows and arrows. Hephaestus created them for him. Apollo was

The city of Thebes has been cursed by a plague caused by an unclean being that murdered Laius. While in despair, Oedipus cursed

A plague has stricken Thebes. The citizens gather outside the palace of their king, Oedipus, asking him to take action. Oedipus replies that he already sent his brother-in-law, Creon, to the oracle at Delphi to learn how to help the city. Creon returns with a message from the oracle: the plague will end when the murderer of Laius, former king of Thebes, is caught and expelled; the murderer is within the city. Oedipus questions Creon about the murder of Laius, who was killed by thieves on his way to consult an oracle. Only one of his fellow travelers escaped alive. Oedipus promises to solve the mystery of Laius’s death, vowing to curse and drive out the murderer.

To begin, in "Oedipus Rex" the gods appear cruel because they have inflicted the people of Thebes with many afflictions. The story commences with a priest of Zeus informing Oedipus of the poor state of his city saying, "The fever-god swoops down on us, hateful plague, he hounds the city and empties the houses of Thebes. The black god is made rich with wailing and funeral laments." (pg. 3, lines 2-5). The fever-god, better know as Apollo, has sent a plague upon the city of Thebes and the plague is killing myriads of people. This shows the cruel nature of the gods because they are more than willing to inflict hardships upon their worshipers. Furthermore, the black god, Hades, seems to benefit from this brutish behavior as well. The gods also have a tendency to twist people's fate in cruel ways. It is revealed by Apollo to Jocasta that, “…Laius was fated to die by the hand of his son, a son born to me.” (pg. 50, lines 11-12) When Oedipus was born Jocasta gave her baby to a Shepard with the orders to kill the baby. The Shepard did not kill the baby but gave it to a messenger bound for Corinth. Oedipus was then given to Polybus and Merope (king and queen of Corinth) to be raised as their own. Later, it was revealed, through the power of Apollo, to Oedipus that he was destined to kill his father. Believing Polybus to be his true father, Oedipus set out for Thebes. At the crossroads of three cities, Oedipus attacked and killed a band of men, one of which was his true father Laius. The tragic fate of Oedipus, and by extension Laius, was brought about by Apollo. His way of exposing only some information while keeping other crucial information hidden is cruel and usually, ends in

If it has not been for the Shepard sparing his life and giving him to Polybus to raise as his own Oedipus would have died. Man walks on 2 feet when he has matured. This is a metaphor for Oedipus when he reaches adulthood and leaves Corinth to escape the oracle. Oedipus meets up with a band of travellers and in a rage kills them. Inadvertently Oedipus has killed his own father. Oedipus then answers the riddle of the sphinx and becomes king of Thebes. By becoming king of Thebes he marries Jocasta the Queen of Thebes and his own mother. Many years later after bearing children with Jocasta a plague kills many of the inhabitants of Thebes. Oedipus is told by the gods to find the killer of Laius. He is very diligent in the inquiry and finally comes to the horrible truth that he himself is the murderer. Jocasta kills herself at the horrible realization that she has

The Minoan society is considered to be the first European civilization, which had derived from the heritage of Asia Minor. I have also discovered that in Minoan society women had the liberty to do all that men were able to, aside from ruling. Also, the Minoans were not at large regarding war, they may have had a navy to protect their ships, but besides from that, they were larger on trade with others from the Mediterranean.

Unfortunately, to her disbelief, she is just perpetuating the problem. Jocasta believes that she can take the world into her own hands and prevent the awful tragedy that is her son killing her husband, King Laius, as well as sleeping with and bearing children with her murderous son. To prevent that awful occurrence from happening, she and King Laius bind the child up when he is just three days old and leave him to die on the side of a mountain so there is absolutely no chance of the prophecy being completed; however, she is greatly mistaken. She says feeling confident in her preventative measures, “...So in this case Apollo’s purpose failed…so much for oracles that map our future…” (Sophocles 29). Jocasta believes at that point in the selection that she has thwarted the prophecy of the gods. However, she later realizes that even though she takes precautionary measures to prevent that occurrence from ever happening, she is not greater than the gods. This is purely another example of the gods being sovereign rulers of the people of Thebes. In addition, the gods make sure the prophecy comes true and Oedipus commits the awful acts that he is destined to perform. Because of this, the gods remain victorious and in complete power over her life, her son’s, and the events that occur within