Oedipus Rex

Description Read the editors’ background to Aristotle and his text Poetics, sections 1-15 (95-112). In addition, finish reading Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex (33-end), and review the editors’ background to Plato and the assigned excerpts from Ion,...

Oedipus Rex

After reading the play Oedipus Rex found in your text book, respond to ONE of the following questions with a thorough 1,200-1,500 word response. Your response must be typed, double-spaced, using a 12 point font, and 1″ margins. Full credit reading responses will...

Oedipus Rex

To the ancients, Oedipus was the model of nobility in his innate sense of justice, selfless concern for the well-being of his people, and ultimate embrace of his destiny. What then, is the nature of Oedipus’s responsibility for his fate and the fate of Thebes? Write...