Exploring The Waste Land
An allusion page linked from The Waste Land, Part III, line 245

Oedipus the King
Sopocles

Tiresias was the one who told Oedipus, the King of Thebes, that the man that Oedipus had killed was his own father and that he had inadvertanly married his own mother.

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T 115 - Sophocles
T 89 - Oedipus
T 126 - Tiresias
T 125 - Thebes


Exploring The Waste Land
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