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Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King (430? B.C.)

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Sophocles

Sophocles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Oedipus The King (430? B.C.)

Background:

There is dispute about the exact date of this play. The dating argument
hinges on possible relationships between the plague described in the play and
an actual plague in Athens in 430-427 B.C. It is not known what other
tragedies were presented in the same contest, but an ancient commentator says
that Oedipus was awarded second place. If so, the prize was no indication of
the play's merits, for Aristotle, in his Poetics, praises it very highly, and
subsequent generations have taken it as the perfect model of Greek ...

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