House of Labdacus
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
house of Labdacus · ancestral fortune · family · house · house of Laius · house of your kings
in the texts
Antigone
The royal Theban lineage of Oedipus, Antigone, Polyneices, and their kin, marked by inherited curse and family death.
Look at me, you who are Thebes’ lords—look at the only remaining daughter of the house of your kings.
You have touched on my most bitter thought and moved my ever-renewed pity for my father and for the entire doom ordained for us, the famed house of Labdacus.
Oh, you witnesses of the killers and the killed, both of one family!
Oedipus Tyrannus
The royal Theban lineage of Laius and Oedipus, burdened by hidden crimes, pollution, and ruin.
You who are most honored in this land, what deeds you will hear, what deeds you will behold, what burden of sorrow will be yours, if, true to your race, you still care for the house of Labdacus.
The old happiness of their ancestral fortune was once happiness indeed.
It was a child, then, of the house of Laius.