The Curse of Oedipus
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avenging curse · the curse · the curse of Oedipus · the father's curse
in the texts
Phoenissae
The hereditary curse Oedipus pronounced on his sons for dishonoring him, understood as the driving cause of their mutual slaughter.
The god, it seems, has fulfilled those curses of yours.
so he, suffering and disgraced as well, breathed dreadful curses against them.
your own avenging curse, with all its load of swords and fire and ruthless war, came on your sons.
Suppliants
The inherited familial curse stemming from Oedipus, blamed for the sorrows besetting the house of Argos and Thebes.
The curse of Oedipus, fraught with sorrow, after desolating his house, is come on thee.
Thou, old sir, hast been made partaker in the fortune of Oedipus, thou and my poor city too.