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Oedipus The King: Oedipus' Downfall Is Because Of King Laius
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Oedipus The King, by Sophocles, is a play about how Oedipus lives
up his fate that he will kill his father and marry his mother, both of
which are extremely bad in the Greek society, even though he thinks he is
getting away from it. Despite the Greek notions of supreme power of the
gods and fate, ....
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....but the servant felt pity for the child and gave him
to a fellow Shepherd from Corinth in hopes he could take it to a foreign
country to take care of it.
Sophocles says that prophecies from the gods of someone's fate
should not be ignored when he tells that when Oedipus was in the care of
his foster parents, Polybus and Merope, he took a journey to The Oracle of
Delphi without them knowing.
“Oedipus - Without telling my parents, I set off on a journey to
the oracle of Apollo, at Delphi.... |
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