Blog Hwk #1: Oedipus

Find a quote (no more than 3 sentences) from Oedipus the King that would be viewed ironically by a Greek audience familiar with the Oedipus myth.  Why is the quote ironic? Why might Sophocles have made those particular word choices (diction)?

For example:

"This quest that throngs you here, poor needy children, is no new quest to me. I know too well, you all are sick, yet sick, not one so sick as I" (7).

Oedipus is telling the people of Thebes that no one is as "sick" over the plague in their city as he is. He means that he is deeply disturbed and worried about his people. Of course, the word "sick" also has other meanings, such as psychologically and/or physically ill.  Oedipus is also "sick" in this sense of the word. He has committed murder and incest; acts that most cultures would consider quite disturbed and "sick."