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    Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. It tells the story of Oedipus, who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. The play explores themes of fate, pride, and moral responsibility. Oedipus is the protagonist who is renowned for his intelligence but is stubbornly blind to the truth about himself until the end of the play.

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    Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. It tells the story of Oedipus, who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. The play explores themes of fate, pride, and moral responsibility. Oedipus is the protagonist who is renowned for his intelligence but is stubbornly blind to the truth about himself until the end of the play.

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    Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. It tells the story of Oedipus, who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. The play explores themes of fate, pride, and moral responsibility. Oedipus is the protagonist who is renowned for his intelligence but is stubbornly blind to the truth about himself until the end of the play.

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    The play explores themes of fate, identity, truth and moral responsibility. It also teaches that pride often leads to downfall and one cannot escape their destiny.

    The play is about King Oedipus of Thebes who unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother.

    The main characters are Oedipus, Jocasta, Creon, Tiresias and Antigone and Ismene who are Oedipus' children.

    Oedipus Rex

    ◦ Sophocles

    Maria Cristine Margate, MAELT


    Reporter
    OEDIPUS REX
    One of the world’s greatest tragedies.

    An Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was


    first performed about 429 BC.

    Of his three Theban plays that deals with


    Oedipus, Oedipus The King was the second to
    be written and the most renowned.

    During the early years of Peloponnesian War,


    Athens suffered from political instability and
    devastating plague.
    Born in Colonus, a small town outside Athens,
    Greece in 495 BC.

    Over 62 years, Sophocles wrote over 120


    plays, 24 of which won first prize.

    Only 7 of his plays survived:


    Ajax (445 BC), Antigone (440 BC), Electra
    (440 BC), Oedipus (430 BC), The Trichinae
    (413 BC), Philoctetes (410 BC) and Oedipus
    at Colonus (401 BC).
    Towards the end of Sophocles life Athens raged
    a war against Sparta, their bitter rival.

    There was also a great plague in 430 BC.

    Along with Aeschylus and Euripedes, he is one


    of classical Athen’s great tragic playwright.

    It was reputed that he quit acting because he


    has a weak voice.
    OEDIPUS REX
    CHARACTERS:

    OEDIPUS

    - the protagonist
    - he is renowned for his intelligence and his
    ability to solve riddles
    - stubbornly blind to the truth about himself
    - his name’s literal meaning is “swollen foot”
    - he killed his biological father, not knowing
    who he was and proceeded to marry Jocasta,
    his biological mother
    OEDIPUS REX
    CHARACTERS:

    JOCASTA
    - Oedipus mother and wife and Creon’s sister
    ANTIGONE
    - child of Oedipus and Jocasta
    - led and cared for her old blind father in his
    exile
    ISMENE
    - child of Oedipus and Jocasta
    - underscored her sister’s grandeur and courage
    OEDIPUS REX
    CHARACTERS:

    POLYNICES
    - Oedipus’ son

    CREON
    - Jocasta’s brother, Oedipus’ brother-in-law

    LAUIS
    - Oedipus’ biological father whom he
    unknowingly killed
    OEDIPUS REX
    CHARACTERS:

    TIRESIAS
    - blind prophet and servant of Apollo
    - revealed the reason for the devastation and plague
    in Thebes
    - tells Oedipus that he will become blind and poor

    SPHINX
    - a winged lion with a woman’s head
    OEDIPUS REX
    SETTING

    THEBES
    -birth place of Oedipus

    CORINTH
    -place where Oedipus was taken by King Polybus and
    his wife as their son

    DELPHI
    -Place where Apollo’s oracle are found
    OEDIPUS REX
    THEME

    - Quest for identity and


    truth
    - Nature of innocence
    and guilt
    - Nature of moral
    responsibility
    Oedipus Rex is meant to teach
    us that…

    -It is useless to try to


    escape fate.
    One cannot control
    one’s own destiny.
    -Pride is often an
    individual’s downfall.
    Tragedy
    A form of drama in which the
    protagonist, having some quality of
    greatness, comes to disaster through
    some flaws in him that can even bring
    about his inevitable downfall or death.

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