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Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Thebes is dying of plague, Oedipus swears to find the killer of the previous king, and every witness he questions brings him closer to the answer he cannot survive. Aristotle treated it as the model of how a tragedy should be built. The link is to the Oxford volume collecting it with Antigone and Electra.
Why you should read this
The Greek tragedy Aristotle used as his model of the form in the Poetics, built around dramatic irony where the audience knows what the protagonist does not. Standard entry point into Greek tragedy for readers who want to see the genre's structure at its most disciplined.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 429 BCE
- Themes
- Greek TragedyLiterature
