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Aristotle's Poetics: Notes on Sophocles' Oedipus Archived 2018-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, cached version of the original; Background on Drama, Generally, and Applications to Sophocles' Play; Study Guide for Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Full text English translation of Oedipus the King by Ian Johnston, in verse Archived 2011-07-19 at the ...
Oedipus (UK: / ˈ iː d ɪ p ə s /, also US: / ˈ ɛ d ə-/; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family.
To say, in the era of tragedy, civil society may put forward higher demands on the knowledge of the king rather than the force. Therefore, the Oedipus portrayed by Sophocles is an image that relies on knowledge and reasoning. Later, Sophocles created Epigoni again in the form of tragedy. Unfortunately, the complete script has been lost for ...
[1]: 341 Creon replies by condemning Oedipus, saying "I knew [your city] would never harbor a father-killer...worse, a creature so corrupt, exposed as the mate, the unholy husband of his own mother." [1]: 343 Oedipus, infuriated, declares once more that he is not morally responsible for what he did. Theseus leads Creon away to retake the two girls.
Oedipus is the king of Thebes, husband of Jocasta, and he is the supposed son of king Polybus of Corinth. He is the main protagonist of the play. Jocasta is the widow of the former king Laius, wife of Oedipus and sister of Creon. Creon is Jocasta's brother, and the chief aid to Oedipus in Thebes.
She is the daughter and half-sister of Oedipus, king of Thebes, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. She appears in several tragic plays of Sophocles: at the end of Oedipus Rex, in Oedipus at Colonus and in Antigone. She also appears at the end of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes.
Creon, Antigone's uncle and newly appointed King of Thebes, buries Eteocles, who fought on the Theban side of the war, hailing him as a great hero. He refuses to bury Polyneices, proclaiming that any who attempt to defy his wishes will be made an example of, on the grounds that he was a 'traitor' fighting on the opposing side in the war.
The Gods Are Not To Blame is a 1968 play and a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi. [1] An adaptation of the Greek classical play Oedipus Rex, the story centres on Odewale, who is lured into a false sense of security, only to somehow get caught up in a somewhat consanguineous trail of events by the gods of the land.