<P> Everything is at last revealed, and Oedipus curses himself and fate before leaving the stage . The chorus laments how even a great man can be felled by fate, and following this, a servant exits the palace to speak of what has happened inside . When Jocasta enters the house, she runs to the palace bedroom and hangs herself there . Shortly afterward, Oedipus enters in a fury, calling on his servants to bring him a sword so that he might cut out his mother's womb . He then rages through the house, until he comes upon Jocasta's body . Giving a cry, Oedipus takes her down and removes the long gold pins that held her dress together, before plunging them into his own eyes in despair . </P> <P> A blind Oedipus now exits the palace and begs to be exiled as soon as possible . Creon enters, saying that Oedipus shall be taken into the house until oracles can be consulted regarding what is best to be done . Oedipus's two daughters (and half - sisters), Antigone and Ismene, are sent out, and Oedipus laments their having been born to such a cursed family . He asks Creon to watch over them and Creon agrees, before sending Oedipus back into the palace . </P> <P> On an empty stage the chorus repeat the common Greek maxim, that no man should be considered fortunate until he is dead . </P> <P> The two cities of Troy and Thebes were the major focus of Greek epic poetry . The events surrounding the Trojan War were chronicled in the Epic Cycle, of which much remains, and those about Thebes in the Theban Cycle, which have been lost . The Theban Cycle recounted the sequence of tragedies that befell the house of Laius, of which the story of Oedipus is a part . </P>

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