Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King
According to Creon what were the circumstances of Laius's death?
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Creon speaks with a messenger who fled in terror from the roadside where Laius was killed. This messenger, in turn, reveals that
…the robbers they encountered
were many and the hands that did the murder
were many; it was no man’s single power.
(123-5)