![]() ![]() Following Aristotle’s appraisal, many prominent authors including Voltaire, Frederich Nietzsche, and Sidmund Freud reacted at length to the play’s themes of incest and patricide. ![]() ![]() Aristotle praises the play in his Poetics for having an exemplary, well-constructed plot, one which is capable of inspiring fear and pity not only in its audience but especially in those who have merely heard of the story. Jocasta commits suicide, Oedipus blinds himself, takes leave of his children, and is led away. When Creon returns Oedipus begins investigating the death of his predecessor, Laius, and discovers through various means that he himself was the one who had unknowingly killed Laius and then married his own mother, Jocasta. ![]() In the play Oedipus, King of Thebes, upon hearing that his city is being ravaged by fire and plague, sends his brother-in-law Creon to find a remedy from the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. at the Great Dionysia, a religious and cultural festival held in honor of the god Dionysus, where it won second prize. Sophocles, first produced the play in Athens around 430 B.C. It is known by a variety of title (the most common being Oedipus Rex), including Oedipus the King and Oedipus Tyrannus. Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is probably the most famous tragedy ever written. ![]()
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