Chapter 8 The Story of Oedipus-8

Soon, King Creon invaded Chronos from Thebes with his armed entourage. "You will be surprised when my troops come to Attica," he said to the villagers, "but don't be surprised, and don't be angry. I am not naive enough to challenge the mightiest city of Greece I am an old man, and the townspeople have sent me to persuade this man to come back to Thebes with me." He turned again, looked at Oedipus, and spoke falsely to him and his daughter. sympathy for fate. Oedipus raised his begging stick to signal him not to come near. "You shameless liar," he cried, "you don't think I've suffered enough to take me away! You can't use me to save your city from impending disaster, and I don't want to come to you. I I will only send vengeful demons with you. Except for two cemeteries in Thebes where my two unworthy sons were buried, the rest of the land does not belong to them!"

Creon wanted to take away the blind king by force, but the villagers of Chronos would not let them take him away.Creon motions to his followers to snatch Ismene and Antigone away from Oedipus.Despite the resistance of the Chronos, they dragged the two girls away."I have taken your pillar," said Creon mockingly. "You blind man, now wander alone!" He was all the more emboldened by his success in taking the girl.He approached Oedipus again, and was about to strike, when Theseus heard the news that the armed Thebes had invaded Cronus, and came immediately.When he heard what had happened, he was very angry, and sent men on horseback and on foot to pursue the Thebes who had kidnapped the two girls.Then he told Creon that he would never let him go unless he had to bring back the two daughters of Oedipus.

"Son of Aegeus," said Creon, with feigned flattery, "I have not come to fight with you, nor with your city. I have done him kindness, and did not know that your people would protect me so much." Blind relatives, don't know that they would protect a sinner who married a mother so much that they would not send him back to his country." Theseus ordered him to shut up and tell him where the two girls were hidden.After a while, the two girls were rescued and reunited with Oedipus.Creon was forced to leave Chronos angrily with his servants.