Passage 6 (Cumulative) What I did was best – don’t lecture m…
Passage 6 (Cumulative) What I did was best – don’t lecture me, No more advice. I, with my eyes, How could I look my father in the eyes When I go down to death? Or mother, so abused … I have done such things to the two of them, Crimes too huge for hanging. Worse yet, The sight of my children, born as they were born, How could I long to look into their eyes? No, not with these eyes of mine, never. Not this city either, her high towers, The sacred glittering images of her gods- I am misery! I, her best son, reared As no other son of Thebes was ever reared, I’ve stripped myself, I gave the command myself. All men must cast away the great blasphemer, The curse now brought to light by the gods, The son of Laius – I, my father’s son!
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