The Chorus In Sophocles Oedipus The King

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In Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King,” he displays the Chorus’ dire need from the gods to save Thebes from the plague; they ask the goddess Athena to save their city from Ares before asking Bacchus to destroy the plague. The Chorus is justified in wanting Athena to expel Ares from Thebes. They cry out to Athena telling her that the plague is “his war [and] his shields” and that “shouts pierce [them] on all sides” (248, 249). Ares is the god of war and destruction; the plague is his war and weapons against Thebes and the shouts from the plague’s victims can be heard everywhere. They then ask Athena to “turn back the huge raging jaws of death god Ares” and send him “away to the two seas at the world’s edge” (245, 251-252). The Chorus is asking

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