HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Trojan War, Laius, Tyrant
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Entered the athenian drama festivals 30 times, presented of trilogy, authored 120 plays. 3 plays, antigone, oedipus tyrannus, oedipus at colonus, all come from the same family. Tyrannus, comes chronologically first in family history, colonus follows next, antigone takes years after oedipus is dead and focuses on his surviving daughters, especially his daughter. Antigone is the one he wrote first, decades before he wrote about tyrannus, and colonus which is in his last days of his life. These plays were not written as a trilogy. We will read at tyrannus, which was performed from 429 to 425 bce. Oedipus character"s name, some plays are meaning of his name in the text. Tyrannos- particular style of politics at greece, performed not only to the athenian democratic audience but right in the heart of athenian democracy. The character therefore is not like them, not a democrat, he is a king, and he has taken power at.