Round 10: Tossup 7

While predicting a future war, this character proclaims that, besides gods, “all else in the world mighty Time obliterates.” This character pulls gold pins from his dead wife’s clothes after a shepherd from Mount Cithaeron recounts (15[1])his past. This (15[1])character is told “you yourself are the criminal you seek” before his death at (*) Colonus. After this character’s sons kill each other, only one is given a burial, dismaying his daughter, Antigone. This character recalls killing King Laius at a crossroads in the first of a trilogy of plays by Sophocles. For 10 points, name this king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. ■END■

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