Oedipus among the voice, the listening, and the path

This article aims to show how the relationship between the voice, the listening, and the path is decisive for the Oedipal drama's tragic cunfolding. From listening to the Apollinium oracle to the prophecies of the blind seer, Oedipun sets out on a journey, always in search of funding out truly who he is and what his destiny in. Based on the Foucauldian readings and in dialogue with other scholars of this millennial play, it is possible to see that the new judicial model implemented by the king of Thebes himself to discover the murderer of the former sovereign condemns him to listen the word from which, for all time, he has evaded. And the salvation of the city? This is nothing more than an effect of lights and sound a way to make the truth emerge so that everyone can see and hear it and thus recover the lost order.