That the Oracle identifies the cause of and the solution to the pestilence that ravages the population, livestock and harvests is what Theban King Creon reports from the Oracle at Apollo's Shrine. Specifically, he says that the pestilence is caused by the environmental pollution from the unsolved murder of Theban King Laius. The pestilence will end with the identification and punishment by execution or exile of the murderer or murderers.
Creon returns with a message from the oracle: the plague will end when the murderer of Laius, former king of Thebes, is caught and expelled; the murderer is within the city.
Consult with the Delphic oracle is what Creon says that Oedipus needs to do to get proof of Creon's innocence in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus groundlessly charges Creon, his brother-in-law and royal colleague, with attempting to usurp all royal powers. Creon defends himself. He says that Oedipus need only check with the Delphic oracle. The oracle will confirm that the pestilence can be ended only with the identification and punishment of the guilty in King Laius' murder.
Go to the oracle at Delphi to find out why Thebes is being plagued.
Creon; the Delphic oracle
Oedipus sent him to the Oracle to find out revelations.
That the Oracle identifies the cause of and the solution to the pestilence that ravages the population, livestock and harvests is what Theban King Creon reports from the Oracle at Apollo's Shrine. Specifically, he says that the pestilence is caused by the environmental pollution from the unsolved murder of Theban King Laius. The pestilence will end with the identification and punishment by execution or exile of the murderer or murderers.
Creon returns with a message from the oracle: the plague will end when the murderer of Laius, former king of Thebes, is caught and expelled; the murderer is within the city.
Consult with the Delphic oracle is what Creon says that Oedipus needs to do to get proof of Creon's innocence in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus groundlessly charges Creon, his brother-in-law and royal colleague, with attempting to usurp all royal powers. Creon defends himself. He says that Oedipus need only check with the Delphic oracle. The oracle will confirm that the pestilence can be ended only with the identification and punishment of the guilty in King Laius' murder.
Oedipus sent him to the Oracle to find out revelations.
Go to the oracle at Delphi to find out why Thebes is being plagued.
Creon; the Delphic oracle
The Delphic oracle.
It is to find out how to end the pestilence that Oedipus sends Creon to consult the Delphic oracle in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, an environmental disturbance such as pestilence can result from divine wrath over offensive commissions or omissions of mortals. Proper procedure in that case is to consult the Pythia, ancient Greece's most famous and respected oracle. That is precisely what Theban King Oedipus does.
It is the Delphic oracle that Oedipus sends Creon to consult prior to the beginning of the action of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Delphic oracle carries the name of the Pythia. As the oracle of Apollo the sun god at Delphi, she is the most famous and respected oracle in ancient Greece. Oedipus therefore sends Creon, his brother-in-law and royal colleague, to find out how to end the pestilence before it ends all life in Thebes.
Oedipus sends Creon, his half-brother and uncle, to consult the oracle in order to discover the cause behind a great plague that has stuck Thebes.
The guard and sentry report it to him.
To find out from the Oracle at Apollo's shrine why there's pestilence in Thebes and how to end it is the errand that Theban King Oedipus entrusts to his brother-in-law and uncle, Theban King Creon. Creon indeed comes back with the necessary information. The Oracle says that the pestilence will end with the identification and punishment of the murderer or murderers of Theban King Laius, Oedipus' royal predecessor and - unbeknownst to him - his own father and sovereign.