Oedipus's curse on his sons
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Oedipus's prayer · curse of Oedipus · the curse
in the texts
Phoenissae
The curse Oedipus pronounces on Eteocles and Polyneices, that they should divide their inheritance by the sword.
Oh, try to escape your father’s curse!
by his curses it may be that he will slay us too.
Afflicted by his fate, he makes the most unholy curses against his sons, praying that they may divide this house with a sharp sword.
Alcibiades 2
The rash curse Oedipus pronounced on his sons, later fulfilled with disastrous results for the family.
Well, just such a person, as I was saying, Alcibiades, was Oedipus;
Just as Oedipus, they say, suddenly prayed that his sons might divide their patrimony with the sword: