A plague threatens to destroy the city.
the plague
No, citizens don't tell Theban King Oedipus about a plague threatening to destroy the city at the beginning of the play. Instead, it's the priest who does so. Oedipus already is aware of the problem and the lack of an effective solution.
The plague is the problem of the Theban citizens in 'Oedipus Rex'. It affects everything living in sight. It therefore wreaks havoc on harvests, livestock and people.
Send Creon to consult the Apolline oracleis what Oedipus does to solve the problem at the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus does what any royal is raised to do in Thebes and throughout ancient Greece: find out what divine will is in all this. An environmental problem such as pestilence usually indicates an offensive commission or omission by mortals. Oedipus sends Creon, his brother-in-law and royal colleague, to find out what Thebans are or are not doing and what they need to be doing or to stop doing.
It is the priest of Zeus that tells Oedipus that a pestilence threatens to destroy the city at the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the priest gathers with suppliants outside the main entrance to the Theban royal palace. The suppliants have set up altars in the clearing. They plan to have the priest bring up the pestilential problem in a public meeting with their beloved and respected King Oedipus.
the plague
No, citizens don't tell Theban King Oedipus about a plague threatening to destroy the city at the beginning of the play. Instead, it's the priest who does so. Oedipus already is aware of the problem and the lack of an effective solution.
conflict
The plague is the problem of the Theban citizens in 'Oedipus Rex'. It affects everything living in sight. It therefore wreaks havoc on harvests, livestock and people.
Pestilence is the problem about which Thebans complain to Oedipus in the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, ailing livestock, dying babies and failing harvests are wreaking havoc with the well-being of Thebans. Each of the suppliants in the opening scene has experience with the death, famine and suffering from the pestilence that devastates Thebes. Thebans are not finding solutions on individual or collective bases, and so they turn to Oedipus, the savior of their city from the monstrous Sphinx.
Send Creon to consult the Apolline oracleis what Oedipus does to solve the problem at the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus does what any royal is raised to do in Thebes and throughout ancient Greece: find out what divine will is in all this. An environmental problem such as pestilence usually indicates an offensive commission or omission by mortals. Oedipus sends Creon, his brother-in-law and royal colleague, to find out what Thebans are or are not doing and what they need to be doing or to stop doing.
It is the priest of Zeus that tells Oedipus that a pestilence threatens to destroy the city at the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the priest gathers with suppliants outside the main entrance to the Theban royal palace. The suppliants have set up altars in the clearing. They plan to have the priest bring up the pestilential problem in a public meeting with their beloved and respected King Oedipus.
It is the priest of Zeus that tells Oedipus that a pestilence threatens to destroy the city at the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the priest gathers with suppliants outside the main entrance to the Theban royal palace. The suppliants have set up altars in the clearing. They plan to have the priest bring up the pestilential problem in a public meeting with their beloved and respected King Oedipus.
The unsolved murder of Laius is what causes the problem at the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Laius is murdered. No one observes the necessary cleansing rituals. A pestilence settles on the city and will end only with the execution or exile of the murderer, whose crime is an offense against the gods.
Oedipus sends Creon, his brother-in-law, to go see the Oracle in Delphi, in hopes that he will return with a solution to the problem in Thebes.
A pestilence is the problem that the people of Thebes face at the beginning of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, a pestilence afflicts all Thebes. It causes children to die, crops to fail and livestock to fail. The priest of Zeus and Theban suppliants gather outside the main entrance to the Theban royal palace since they do not know how to end the pestilence before it ends all life in Thebes.
A pestilence is what Theban King Oedipus learns is threatening to destroy his city at the beginning of the play. It threatens the city's population, its livestock, and its harvests. If it isn't stopped, the Theban population well may die out, and the resources that they need for their survival likewise may dry up.A pestilence is what Theban King Oedipus discovers to be threatening to destroy his city at the beginning of the play. It's ravaging his city's population, livestock and crops. He doesn't know how to stop it. So he sends his brother-in-law and uncle, Theban King Creon, to find out the cause of, and the solution to, the problem through consultation with the Oracle at Apollo's Shrine.