Oedipus the King

Beware: spoilers I, too, would gouge out my eyes and flee my hometown if I found out I married my long-lost relative. The Moirai (or Fates as they're more commonly known) played a cruel joke on Oedipus. My childhood nemesis got married to her second cousin, but that's not as bad as what Oedipus did......more

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is arguably one of the best plays of all time that inspired a large portion of the modern train of thought, and literary critics gave the play the epithet “Mona Lisa” of drama. It was certainly Aristotle’s favorite play as he stated in Poetics, naming Oedipus the perfect tragi......more

El complejo de Edipo es lo único que yo conocía de esta obra, sin haberla leído todo mundo sabemos sobre la lectura que se le ha hecho desde el psicoanálisis. Pero también está el tema de que Edipo está buscando a un culpable que resulta ser él. Es muy fuerte como historia, una tragedia que me parec......more

nothin like a forced reread in order to write a terrible paper ------- classic oedipus!!! always going and getting himself into life-ruining, city-destroying shenanigans :')......more

Sometimes life's a real bitch. Fate is unavoidable in ancient Greek Tragedy. Trying to avoid it will only lead to it, and doing nothing will lead you there too. So if a God tells you that you will die at the hands of your son, and that he will then go on to steal your wife, you’d best do nothing bec......more