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Lecture 3: Introduction to Sophocles, Athenian Tragedy, and Oedipus the King

Lecture 3: Introduction to Sophocles, Athenian Tragedy, and Oedipus the King

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In this lecture we ask: (a) does Oedipus truly care for his people or is he full of overweening hubris? (b) Using psychoanalysis as a standard, is this a play about being both willing and unwilling to consider a truth/a conflict between one's conscious and unconscious motives; and (c) is Teiresias telling the truth or is he actually colluding with Creon? Is this just a confabulation of Oedipus' to keep him from an even more disturbing truth?

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Lecture 3: Introduction to Sophocles, Athenian Tragedy, and Oedipus the King

Lecture 3: Introduction to Sophocles, Athenian Tragedy, and Oedipus the King

Alexander Schmid