Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Before he is the tragic hero who kills his father and marries his mother, Oedipus is a rescuer. Outside Thebes, a city of Boeotia in central Greece, he faces the Sphinx, a monster that devours anyone who fails its riddle.
He wins with his mind, not with a sword. But the victory puts him on a throne where he will have to face what he does not know about himself. The myth sets knowledge of humankind against tragic ignorance of oneself.
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- 2A monster on the road to Thebes
- 3“What creature has four feet, then two, then three?”
- 4Knowing everything except who you are
- 5The truth and the gouged-out eyes
Open-book quiz10 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary7 terms explained in a tap.
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