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“If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.”

Quote by Sophocles

Book:The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

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The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

This trilogy includes 'Oedipus the King', a tale of a king who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother; 'Oedipus at Colonus', which follows the exiled Oedipus in his final days; and 'Antigone', a story of a daughter's defiance of the state over her brother's burial. more

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Sophocles, born in 498 BC and died in 406 BC, was a renowned Greek tragic playwright. He is one of the three greatest tragic poets of ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles' works profoundly revealed the complexity of human nature and social contradictions, exerting a profound influence on subsequent drama. more

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