Teiresias tells Oedipus that Oedipus is the murderer he seeks. That Oedipus killed King Laius and the resulting plague is due to his trangressions. Oedipus does not believe Teiresias and feels ...

In a world governed by inescapable divine prophecies, Oedipus' attempts to avert his destiny — bringing plague and misfortune ...

where Sophocles tells us the city-state of Thebes is lingering under a loosely defined “plague”, the playwright Ella Hickson makes this a drought. Over the course of Sophocles’s original, Oedipus ...

They want to find out how to stop the plague that has taken over Thebes. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx ...