Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King)
by Dover PublicationsSophocles's tragedy of a king undone by his own search for the truth — the final work read in Challenge IV's Exposition strand.
Oedipus Rex is Sophocles's tragedy of the king of Thebes who, in hunting down the cause of a plague, discovers that he himself has fulfilled the prophecy he tried to escape. Challenge IV reads it last in its Exposition sequence of ancient works, capping the year's study of Greek and Roman literature.
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- Sophocles (Author)
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