Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
In Athens, in the 5th century BC, the playwright Sophocles created Oedipus Rex. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher and student of Plato, would later call it the model of perfect tragedy in his Poetics. In one evening of theater, a king runs an investigation. Every answer brings him closer to the abyss.
The city of Thebes is struck by a plague. The oracle, the answer of the gods delivered at the sanctuary of Delphi, demands that the murderer of the old king Laius be punished. Oedipus, the current king of Thebes, promises to find him. He does not yet know that fate has already placed him at the center of the crime.
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- 2Sophocles and Greek tragedy
- 3The investigation that turns on the investigator
- 4Seeing too clearly, then going blind
- 5From Freud to our modern whodunits
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary16 terms explained in a tap.
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