Oedipus' Curses Speech

• "I will speak out as a stranger to the story, a stranger to the crime"
• "Counted a native Theban"
• "I order him to reveal the whole truth to me"
• "He will suffer no unbearable punishment, nothing worse than exile, totally unharmed"
• "If anyone knows the murderer is a stranger"
• "He is the plague, the heart of our corruption"
• "Now my curse is on the murderer"
• "I curse myself as well"
• "With my full knowledge"
• "Children born of the same mother might have created blood-bonds between us (Oedipus + Laius)"
• "As if he (Laius) were my father"
• "My curse is on those who disobey his (Oedipus') orders!"