Exodus Flashcards
Neither the waters of Danube
nor Nile can wash this palace clean.
The pains we inflict upon ourselves
hurt most of all.
Oedipus burst in, screaming,
(…) circling like a maddened beast
Woman hanging by the neck,
cradled high in a woven noose
He rips off her brooches, the long gold pins holding her robes―and
(…) he digs them down the sockets of his eyes
Blind from this hour on!
Blind in the darkness―blind!
A horror
even his mortal enemy would pity.
[Apollo] ordained my agonies―these, my pains on pains!
But the hand that struck my eyes was mine, mine alone (…) ―I did it all myself!
I have done such things to the two of them,
crimes too huge for hanging.
I command you―
I beg you…
I have been saved for something great and terrible, something strange.
(…) let my destiny come and take me on its way!
Reaching toward Creon,
who draws back.
Not I. Only the gods can
give you that.
He solved the famous riddle with his brilliance, he rose to power, a man beyond all power.
(…) Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him.
