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Seven Against Thebes-Aeschylus

Oct 10 · 3 Mentions

speaker_6UNKNOWN

47:32

Fling off thy passion's rage, thy spirit's prompting dire.

speaker_4UNKNOWN

47:37

Nay, since the god is urgent for our doom, let Laius' house, by Phoebus loathed and scorned, follow the gale of destiny, and win its great inheritance, the gulf of hell.

speaker_5UNKNOWN

47:50

Ruthless thy craving is, craving for kindred and forbidden blood to be outpoured, a sacrifice imbrued with sin, a bitter fruit of murderous enmities.

speaker_4UNKNOWN

48:01

Yea, my own father's fateful curse proclaims.

speaker_5UNKNOWN

50:14

Not the wide lowland around the realm of their sire shall they have yet enough for the dead to inherit the pitiful space of a grave

speaker_6UNKNOWN

50:24

Ah but when kin meets king when sire and child unknowing are defiled by shedding common blood and when the pit of death devoureth drinking the clotted stain the gory dye who who can purify who cleanse pollution where the ancient bane rises and reeks again

speaker_5UNKNOWN

50:44

Whilem in olden days the sin was wrought and swift recritual brought yea on the children of the child came still new heritage of ill for thrice Apollo spoke this word divine from Delphi's central shrine to Laius die thou childless thus alone can the land's weal be won

speaker_6UNKNOWN

51:05

But vainly with his wife's desire he strove and gave himself to love begetting Oedipus by whom he died the fateful parricide the sacred seed-plot his own mother's womb he sowed his house's doom a root of blood by frenzy lord they came unto their wedded shame

Funeral Orations

Against Celsus Book 2-Origen of Alexandria

Oct 10 · 3 Mentions

David RonaldNARRATOR

71:32

Now, what is called by the logicians an, quote, idle argument, end quote, which is a sophism, will be no sophism as far as Celsus can help, but according to sound reason it is a sophism.

David RonaldNARRATOR

71:47

And that this may be seen, I shall take from the scriptures the predictions regarding Judas or the foreknowledge of our Savior regarding him as the traitor, and from the Greek histories the oracle that was given to Laius conceding for the present its truth, since it does not affect the argument.

David RonaldNARRATOR

72:07

Now, in Psalm 109, Judas is spoken of by the mouth of the Savior in words beginning thus, quote, Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise, for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me, end quote.

David RonaldNARRATOR

72:25

Now, if you carefully observe the contents of the psalm, you will find that as it was foreknown that he would betray the Savior, so also was he considered to be himself the cause of the betrayal and deserving on account of his wickedness of the implications contained in the prophecy.

David RonaldNARRATOR

73:27

Wherefore it was possible for him to show mercy and not to persecute him whom he did persecute.

David RonaldNARRATOR

73:35

But although he might have done these things, he did not do them, but carried out the act of treason so as to merit the curses pronounced against him in the prophecy.

David RonaldNARRATOR

73:46

And in answer to the Greeks we shall quote the following oracular response to Laius as recorded by the tragic poet, either in the exact words of the oracle or in equivalent terms.

David RonaldNARRATOR

74:01

Future events are thus made known to him by the oracle, quote, Do not try to beget children against the will of the gods, for if you beget a son, your son shall murder you, and all your household shall wade in blood, end quote.

Ascent of Mount Carmel

Against Celsus Book 2-Origen of Alexandria

Oct 7 · 3 Mentions

David RonaldNARRATOR

66:19

Now, what is called by the logicians an, quote, idle argument, end quote, which is a sophism, will be no sophism as far as Celsus can help, but according to sound reason it is a sophism.

David RonaldNARRATOR

66:33

And that this may be seen, I shall take from the scriptures the predictions regarding Judas or the foreknowledge of our Savior regarding him as the traitor, and from the Greek histories the oracle that was given to Laius conceding for the present its truth, since it does not affect the argument.

David RonaldNARRATOR

66:53

Now, in Psalm 109, Judas is spoken of by the mouth of the Savior in words beginning thus, quote, Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise, for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceitful are opened against me, end quote.

David RonaldNARRATOR

67:11

Now, if you carefully observe the contents of the psalm, you will find that, as it was foreknown that he would betray the Savior, so also was he considered to be himself the cause of the betrayal and deserving, on account of his wickedness, of the implications contained in the prophecy.

David RonaldNARRATOR

67:43

Wherefore it was possible for him to show mercy and not to persecute him whom he did persecute.

David RonaldNARRATOR

67:50

But although he might have done these things, he did not do them, but carried out the act of treason so as to merit the curses pronounced against him in the prophecy.

David RonaldNARRATOR

68:02

And in answer to the Greeks we shall quote the following oracular response to Laius as recorded by the tragic poet, either in the exact words of the oracle or in equivalent terms.

David RonaldNARRATOR

68:16

Future events are thus made known to him by the oracle, quote, Do not try to beget children against the will of the gods, for if you beget a son, your son shall murder you, and all your household shall wade in blood, end quote.

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx

Seven Against Thebes-Aeschylus

Oct 4 · 2 Mentions

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Libby GoneVOICE_ACTOR

52:06

Fling off thy passion's rage, thy spirit's prompting dire.

Daniel VermontVOICE_ACTOR

52:11

Nay, since the god is urgent for our doom, let Laius' house, by Phoebus loathed and scorned, follow the gale of destiny and win its great inheritance, the gulf of hell.

Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR

52:24

Ruthless thy craving is, craving for kindred and forbidden blood to be outpoured, a sacrifice imbrued with sin, a bitter fruit of murderous enmities.

Daniel VermontVOICE_ACTOR

52:35

Yea, my own father's fateful curse proclaims, a ghastly presence, and her eyes are dry.

Libby GoneVOICE_ACTOR

54:57

grave.Ah, but when kin meets kin, when sire and child unknowing are defiled by shedding common blood, and when the pit of death devoureth, drinking the clotted stain, the gory dye, who, who can purify? Who cleanse pollution where the ancient bane rises and reeks again?

Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR

55:18

While in olden days the sin was wrought and swift recrital brought, yea, on the children of the child came still new heritage of ill.

Elizabeth KlettVOICE_ACTOR

55:27

For thrice Apollo spoke this word divine from Delphi's central shrine to Laius, "Die thou childless." Thus alone can the land's weal be won.

Libby GoneVOICE_ACTOR

55:39

But vainly with his wife's desire he strove and gave himself to love, begetting Oedipus, by whom he died, the fateful parricide.

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Golden Porch-W. M. L. Hutchinson

Sep 29 · 6 Mentions

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

110:17

Hear now the tale of how it came.

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

110:21

Laius, the king, for a wickedness that he did in secret, was hated of the heavenly ones, and they laid this doom on him, that his own son should slay him, and pronounced it by the mouth of the priestess in the holy place of Delphi.

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

110:39

Therefore Laius, when his first child was born, had him cast out upon a wild and barren mountain, there to die or to be devoured by beasts of prey.

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

110:51

But the herdsmen of a neighbor king found the babe and brought him to their lord's wife, who had no children, and she reared him as her son.

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

111:02

It fell on a day, when he was grown a man, that he drove in a chariot over a saddle of the hills, and there met him another chariot and a troop of slaves running on foot.

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

111:15

Now the two chariots could not pass in the narrow road, and the servants of the men in the chariot cried roughly to the son of Laius to make way, and seized his horses' bridles to turn them off the road on to the hillside.

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

111:30

And he in anger urged his horses forward till he was close to the other charioteer, who leaned forward and struck him in the face with his whip.

Ladybird DayNARRATOR

111:42

At that the son of Laius drew his sword and stabbed that stranger to the heart, and he fell down dead in the chariot.

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Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation)-Sophocles

Sep 27 · 1 Mention

David LawrenceNARRATOR

33:43

Enter Theseus.

Mark SmithVOICE_ACTOR

33:45

Oft had I heard of thee in times gone by, the bloody mutilation of thine eyes, and therefore know thee, son of Laius.

Mark SmithVOICE_ACTOR

33:54

All that I lately gathered on the way made my conjecture doubly sure, and now thy garb and that marred visage prove to me that thou art he.

Mark SmithVOICE_ACTOR

34:03

So pitying thine estate, most ill-starred Oedipus, I fain would know what is the suit ye urge on me in Athens, thou and the helpless maiden at thy side.

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Golden Porch-W. M. L. Hutchinson

Sep 26 · 6 Mentions

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

109:50

Hear now the tale of how it came.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

109:54

Laius, the king, for a wickedness that he did in secret, was hated of the heavenly ones, and they laid this doom on him, that his own son should slay him, and pronounced it by the mouth of the priestess in the holy place of Delphi.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

110:12

Therefore Laius, when his first child was born, had him cast out upon a wild and barren mountain, there to die or to be devoured by beasts of prey.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

110:24

But the herdsmen of a neighbor king found the babe and brought him to their lord's wife, who had no children, and she reared him as her son.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

110:34

It fell on a day when he was grown a man that he drove in a chariot over a saddle of the hills, and there met him another chariot and a troop of slaves running on foot.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

110:48

Now the two chariots could not pass in the narrow road, and the servants of the men in the chariot cried roughly to the son of Laius to make way, and seized his horses' bridles to turn them off the road onto the hillside.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

111:03

And he in anger urged his horses forward till he was close to the other charioteer, who leaned forward and struck him in the face with his whip.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

111:15

At that the son of Laius drew his sword and stabbed that stranger to the heart, and he fell down dead in the chariot.

Jon Solo's Messed Up Origins™ Podcast

The Messed Up Origins of The SPHINX

Sep 24 · 7 Mentions

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Jon SoloHOST

14:33

One day, he visited an oracle and she warned him that if he had a son, that son would kill him.

Jon SoloHOST

14:40

Personally, if I was a seer and met an asshole like Laius, I would tell him the same thing, because people like him just shouldn't reproduce.

Jon SoloHOST

14:49

And that did work for a while.

Jon SoloHOST

14:51

He tried his damnedest to avoid banging his wife, but one night he got wine drunk and apparently didn't have a concubine in arm's reach.

Jon SoloHOST

16:41

She didn't answer his question outright, but instead told him that if he returned to his native land, he would kill his dad and bang his mom.

Jon SoloHOST

16:50

Now at this point, Oedipus still thinks that Polybus and Peribia are his true birth parents, which means he mistakenly interprets the prophecy as telling him not to return to Corinth.

Jon SoloHOST

17:02

Instead, he went in the direction of Thebes, and it was here that he ran into his birth father, King Laius.

Jon SoloHOST

17:10

Like, he literally ran into him.

CrashCourse

Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202

Sep 24 · 2 Mentions

John GreenHOST

1:50

That's the Kardashians.

John GreenHOST

1:52

[upbeat music] Okay, so Oedipus is King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx and saved the city from destruction, but now a plague is devastating Thebes, and various oracles and bird entrails suggest it's because the murderer of the old king, Laius, still lives there unpunished.

John GreenHOST

2:17

Oedipus decides to investigate the murder, only to discover that, mind blown, he is the one who killed Laius and married his queen, Jocasta.

John GreenHOST

2:25

Then he finds out that Laius was actually his father, and Jocasta is his mother, so he's had four children with his mom, fulfilling an earlier prophecy, because bird entrails are never wrong.

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John GreenHOST

10:58

Remember how Oedipus says, "I have known the story before you told it"? Well, just about everyone in the audience also knows the story before it's told.

John GreenHOST

11:06

I mean, you probably knew the outlines of this story before you actually read the play, right? The gap between what we know in the audience and what the characters know on stage makes us uncomfortable and scared for them, and it ratchets up the tension.

John GreenHOST

11:19

Oedipus is a detective story where it turns out the detective is the murderer, and the detective doesn't know it, but the reader does.

John GreenHOST

11:25

So with each new scene, with each new clue, the net draws more and more tightly around Oedipus.

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Golden Porch-W. M. L. Hutchinson

Sep 22 · 6 Mentions

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

113:16

Hear now the tale of how it came.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

113:20

Laius, the king, for a wickedness that he did in secret, was hated of the heavenly ones, and they laid this doom on him, that his own son should slay him, and pronounced it by the mouth of the priestess in the holy place of Delphi.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

113:38

Therefore Laius, when his first child was born, had him cast out upon a wild and barren mountain, there to die or to be devoured by beasts of prey.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

113:50

But the herdsmen of a neighbor king found the babe and brought him to their lord's wife, who had no children, and she reared him as her son.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

114:00

It fell on a day when he was grown a man that he drove in a chariot over a saddle of the hills, and there met him another chariot and a troop of slaves running on foot.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

114:14

Now the two chariots could not pass in the narrow road, and the servants of the men in the chariot cried roughly to the son of Laius to make way, and seized his horses' bridles to turn them off the road onto the hillside.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

114:29

And he, in anger, urged his horses forward till he was close to the other charioteer, who leaned forward and struck him in the face with his whip.

Lady Bird DayNARRATOR

114:41

At that, the son of Laius drew his sword and stabbed that stranger to the heart, and he fell down dead in the chariot.

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