Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play's end, he stands convicted of murdering his father,
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Described as the Mona Lisa of literature and the world's first detective story, Sophocles' Oedipus the King is
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For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a power
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"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sophocles'
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Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies, a profound meditation on the human condition. The story of the mytho
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Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy fami
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In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate
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