"In the unnumbered deaths of its people the city dies; the children that are born lie dead on the naked earth unpitied, spreading contagion of death; and grey-haired mothers and wives everywhere stand at the altar's edge, suppliant, moaning; the hymn to the healing god rings out, but with it the wailing voices are blended. From these our sufferings. O golden Daughter of Zeus, glad-faced deliverance."

a. Oedipus
b. Chorus
c. Creon
d. Tiresias
e. Jocasta


Answer: b. Chorus

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