1. The Oedipus Cycle
Dramatic plays had become grand outdoor spectacles that drew in audiences numbering in the thousands and each year the first place award was given to the playwright who produced the best plays; an award that Sophocles himself had won twenty-four times while also never placing below second place. Some of Sophocles' greatest plays were the Greek tragedies of The Oedipus Cycle, a trio of stories about how a man named Oedipus's cunning led him to become the king of Thebes, but an unrelenting search for the truth about his birth coupled with an irascible nature ultimately guided him to h...
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