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.
But in this ordeal you are paying for some paternal crime.
Oh, you witnesses of the killers and the killed, both of one family!
Look at me, you who are Thebes’ lords—look at the only remaining daughter of the house of your kings.
Oedipus Tyrannus
The royal Theban lineage of Laius and Oedipus, burdened by hidden crimes, pollution, and ruin.
It was a child, then, of the house of Laius.
The old happiness of their ancestral fortune was once happiness indeed.
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.