What purpose does the Chorus serve in speaking with Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King?

As in many of
our surviving Greek tragedies, the , generally speaking, represents the viewpoint of someone who
is not a king, queen, prince, princess, or other upper-class person.

In '
the King, theis given the persona of elderly men from Thebes. In their
initial conversation with Oedipus, they advise him to consultabout the murder of Laius (and
Oedipus follows their...