Oedipus the King - Greek Tragedies

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Oedipus ran away from his home in Corinth to avoid the prophecy which foretold he would kill his father and marry his mother. After answering the riddle of the Sphynx, he was made King of Thebes, and charged with hunting down the killer of the former King. As Oedipus begins to examine the facts from the past, he slowly learns the horrifying truth that we often fulfill our destiny on the road we took to avoid it…

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Oedipus ran away from his home in Corinth to avoid the prophecy which foretold he would kill his father and marry his mother. After answering the riddle of the Sphynx, he was made King of Thebes, and charged with hunting down the killer of the...

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