CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sophocles, Polonius
27 Sep 2017
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Oedipus accepted responsibility because he was doomed to these actions. The gods made his pathway and he declared he was innocent. He becomes a blessing to the territory of athens. Most of the story (cid:449)as (cid:272)urses or (cid:271)lessi(cid:374)gs. If they did(cid:374)"t li(cid:448)e a(cid:374)y(cid:373)ore li(cid:448)ely because they lived above and beyond that could curse or bless them, there was something clearly weighty. An example of athenian myth napping- we tend to get stories from athenians because they were cultured and written down. They were exclusively survived the ancient world in the form from. There are other formations of the story but this was the most common. Athenians and thebans were often at world so athenians used this story to show they had the body and blessing of oedipus. 400 bc- athens had this great empire and radical democracy (unusual) prided itself on welcoming foreigners and exiled individuals. King thesis oddly, admired by democratics was portrayed as the founder of.
