The only way to stop the spread of the disease was to find the guilty party, and have that person atone for their crime by paying a penalty (usually a fine or banishment), and undergoing an expiation ...The only way to stop the spread of the disease was to find the guilty party, and have that person atone for their crime by paying a penalty (usually a fine or banishment), and undergoing an expiation ritual (frequently a sacrifice of a suckling pig). When Oedipus the King begins, the city of Thebes is infected with a miasma: a disease has fallen on the crops, the cattle are dying, a plague is raging through the land, and all the children are stillborn.
The only way to stop the spread of the disease was to find the guilty party, and have that person atone for their crime by paying a penalty (usually a fine or banishment), and undergoing an expiation ...The only way to stop the spread of the disease was to find the guilty party, and have that person atone for their crime by paying a penalty (usually a fine or banishment), and undergoing an expiation ritual (frequently a sacrifice of a suckling pig). When Oedipus the King begins, the city of Thebes is infected with a miasma: a disease has fallen on the crops, the cattle are dying, a plague is raging through the land, and all the children are stillborn.
