Οιδίπους Τύραννος
1989
Oedipus Rex is not a story about a man who discovers a terrible secret. It is a story about a man who cannot stop digging until he unearths his own destruction. When a plague devastates Thebes, the king Oedipus vows to find the killer of the former ruler and lift the curse from his city. But as he interrogates witnesses, consults prophets, and unravels the truth, he realizes the killer he seeks is himself. What makes Sophocles' tragedy endure across millennia is not merely its shocking revelation, but the relentless logic by which Oedipus drives toward it, knowing full well what he will find. The horror deepens when we realize Oedipus could have stopped at any moment. He chooses not to. This is the question that haunts every generation that encounters this play: what do we do when knowledge means annihilation? For readers who love theater that dissects the soul, this is ground zero.
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“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away””
— Sophocles
“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.””
— Sophocles
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.””
— Sophocles
“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.””
— Sophocles
“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.””
— Sophocles
“Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen it brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here.””
— Sophocles
“The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.””
— Sophocles
“Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.””
— Sophocles
“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength””
— Sophocles
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