as a special relationship with the gods in that capacity, serving as a conduit for supernatural energies on earth. The oracle is a supernatural device by which the gods communicate with human beings and is part of the "deadly logic" of the play that leads Oedipus "into darkness and desolation" (Lesky 286). The importance given to the words of the oracle shows again the need on the part of the people to understand their surroundings and to know that there are powers looking out for them and capable of telling them the future.
Oedipus speaks to Teiresias as if the latter were his enemy, and he speaks similarly to Creon. He does this because each is telling him
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