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The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King,Oedipus at Colonus, JACKET LO D2K - Everyman's Library CLASSICS Sophocles
The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King,Oedipus at Colonus, JACKET LO D2K - Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Sophocles
Ancient Athens produced three great tragic writers - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the three Sophocles has in many ways remained the most accessible and may have had the most extensive influence on Western Culture, not least because Freud took from the Theban Plays the name and the idea of the Oedipus complex.
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