Episode 1, lines 316-462
Tiresias's confrontation with Oedipus — 'I say that you are the murderer whom you seek.'
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From Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The blind seer Tiresias reluctantly reveals that Oedipus himself is the murderer he seeks, introducing the play's central irony of sight and blindness.
Episode 1, lines 412-425
Tiresias's prophecy of Oedipus's coming blindness and exile: 'You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin.'
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Tiresias's riddling departure prophecy: the murderer is brother and father to his children, son and husband to his mother.
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