Week 2 Discussion By Libya Jordan

In Oedipus the King, lines 205 to 210 talk about how the lives of young children are taken by this mysterious disease. As their bodies are rotting exposed, the disease further spreads to in the city.” Those children that are born lie dead on the naked earth unpitied spreading contagion of death; It seems that the mothers of these children are grieving their untimely death. They beg to their Gods, particularly Apollo who can start and end the waves of plagues.” and gray-haired mothers and wives everywhere stand at the altar’s edge, suppliants,moaning; the hymn to the healing God rings out but with it the wailing voices are blended. The people of the city as well call on Athena goddess of war and strategy, to fight against the plague. ” From these sufferings grant us, O golden daughter of Zeus, glad deliverance”. Lines 207 and 209 are slant rhymes, the words “suffering” and “suppliant”. As well as line 208 with the words “healing” and “wailing”